MySQL 4

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:01:03 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer
<thomasz at hostmaster.org> wrote:
> PHP's license needs to be fixed as it is incompatible with the GPL.

If this is how you feel, if this is the problem you thing needs to be
addressed, you are definitely in the wrong forum. Fedora/Red Hat
developers can not 'fix' the php license.
If you really believe thats the best way forward, you are definitely
in the wrong place to make any constructive progress 'fixing' the
problem.  The fact that you point this out as the main issue
undermines any continued mysql4 advocacy in this forum. All Fedora/Red
Hat developers can do is choose to abide by the terms of the licensing
agreements or choose to ignore the licensing terms of licenses.

If you are advocating that anyone delibrately choose to ignore the
terms of licensing agreements that come with each and every open
source project, you are advocating the destruction of exactly the
freedoms laid down by the GPL. It is VITAL that licensing terms be
respected by all parties using the code. And what we have here isn't
even a debatable conflict over interpretation as to whether there is a
licensing conflict or not. You agree that php license conflicts....
there's no point in continuing to harp on the issues surrounding the
mysql re-licensing.

-jef"wouldn't it just be easier if from now on, if you want to
advocate mysql4 inclusion again in one of the fedora lists, you just
reference one of your previous posts in an older thread. You summed up
your position succinctly awhile ago in previous threads, so in an
effort to save yourself some time i encourage you just to reference
previous messages instead of writing new ones. I promise to re-read
them...really i do"spaleta


-jef"