mysql 4.x and fedoracore2

[James Kosin]

Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:

>On Mit, 2004-10-27 at 10:01 -0400, James Kosin wrote:
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>>MySQL changed their GPL and the people of Fedora, etc. did not like the 
>>changes.  Basically, they are requiring anyone who uses MySQL for any 
>>commercial or managed purpose other than testing or development to pay 
>>royalties to MySQL.
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>MySQL4 is available under the terms of the GPL or a commercial license.
>Additionally there is an exception to permit linking with proprietary
>free and open source licensed software like the PHP.
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>>They also have provisions to not distribute the source for some modules 
>>of MySQL.
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>MySQL is licensed and distributed under the terms of the GPL, this means
>that the complete source code must be made available. Except from your
>posting I have not heard of any missing source and one could even sue
>MySQL to provide it.
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>>I could be wrong on some points, but you get the gist.  Basically, they 
>>have started a move away from open source.  MySQL 3.23.58 is the last 
>>with the open source GPL, so that is what FC2 has included.
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>On the contrary they have moved TOWARDS open source. Evil companies are
>no longer allowed to include MySQL with their closed source products,
>they have to either stick with MySQL-3, go GPL or pay the open source
>community their well deserved share.
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>>I'm sure I'll get flamed for some of my comments; because my points 
>>above may not be totally true.  I'm not good a speaking lawerese.
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>I have CC'ed this post to the MySQL licensing department and sincerely
>hope that they will sue you for spreading this FUD.
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>Tom
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Tom,

If all these things are true, then why doesn't Fedora Core x contain the 
latest MySQL version?
And like I said, I'm not a lawyer, so I'm a little rusty at interpreting 
the underlying meaning on the license agreement; so, I default to the 
Fedora managers that decided not to include MySQL4 for licensing reasons.

James Kosin