MySQL 4.0.x

Thomas Zehetbauer thomasz at hostmaster.org
Mon May 17 16:32:36 UTC 2004


> Indeed this is old. Red Hat is built "exclusively from Free Software", a 
> category in which MySQL no longer fits.

Why? MySQL is available "under the free software/open source GNU General
Public License (commonly known as the "GPL") or under a commercial
license." So I guess it's only fair that RedHat has to pay for MySQL if
they want to ship some closed source binaries with their commercial RHEL
distribution.

Tom






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