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