Newer MySQL?

[Joshua Eichorn]

Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

>Hi Michael,
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>>Could someone please enlighten me? Why isn't a newer version of MySQL,
>>like 4.x, shipping with FC? Is it because Postgre is the DB of choice,
>>or is it a license thing?
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>Funny. I was just thinking the same thing today and looked around a bit.
>Then I get a bugzilla mail about rpm deltas that hadn't been touched in
>months and now there you are again ;).
>
>Joe Orton (?) reported the license issue was fixed and the waiting was
>for new tarballs with the new FOSS-exception license. Further
>investigation showed that there are no new tarballs yet however... The
>latest is still 4.0.20 and that is dated earlier then the report that
>things are now fine.
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>So it seems the ball is with MySQL AB this time. Sigh.
>
>Leonard.
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The good news is that the License exception is in the 4.1.3 tarball (as 
well as being on the website, 
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MySQL_FLOSS_License_Exception.html).  
So things are getting closer.

Now I guess its just waiting for 4.0.21 to be released.
-josh