[wplug] [OT] PHP/MySQL

[Chris]

wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
> Sometime in October Chris assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
>> I read somewhere that in PHP5 the mysql client libraries will be
>> removed because of mysql's licensing.  Aren't both of these GPLed?
>> Why would php have to remove the libraries?  Anyone have some insight
>> on this?
> 
> the license for mysql depends on it's use. its kind of weird,
> but from the page below, we have the following:
> 
>     If your application is not licensed under GPL or
> compatible OSI license
>     approved by MySQL AB and you intend to distribute MySQL
> software (be
>     that internally or externally), you must first obtain a commercial
>     license to the MySQL software in question.
> 
> http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html
> 
> there was a discussion on usenet about this.
> 
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> http://tinyurl.com/s2b7


Thank you.  That helped.


Chris Romano