[wplug] [OT] PHP/MySQL

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Oct 23 12:54:17 EDT 2003


John Harrold 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.

Sounds like a good time to switch to PostgreSQL.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com




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