MySQL 4 stalled in Red Hat legal department
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Oct 19 15:55:42 UTC 2004
Or setting in the php rpm that it conflicts mysql 4?
tir, 19.10.2004 kl. 01.49 skrev Warren Togami:
> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> >>>Maybe time to move MySQL to Extras?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Stop blaming RH legal, who is merely doing their job. It isn't their
> >>fault that their opinion is the wording of the current exception is
> >>self-contradictory, and the real problem license that needs to be
> >>changed to avoid this problem is PHP.
> >
> >
> > So, maybe we should remove PHP? ;-]
> >
> > <tongue style="position:cheek">
> > As a non-PHP coder, I'd love to have MySQL4 and the thought that a I
> > can't because of a licensing problem in PHP is somewhat disappointing.
> > So yank PHP and let them address the licensing problem.
> > </tongue>
> >
>
> One option that we are exploring for the future what Debian does. They
> ship both mysql 3 and 4 client libraries, with PHP linked to only 3 due
> to this license difficulty. This however would be less than ideal for
> PHP users, while being an added maintenance burden on us. And
> definitely too late for FC3.
>
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
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