MySQL 4

[Gregory G Carter]

What consequences?

Took me about 3 hours to migrate everything I have to PostGRES.

:-)

-gc

John Morris wrote:

>On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ken Snider wrote:
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>>You can still connect to MySQL via a Unix Socket or TCP without worrying about 
>>the GPL-ness of the libraries - this only affects *compiled* code that links 
>>against libmysql.
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>>This is one of the reasons a separate package with the 3.x mysql libs might 
>>make sense from a linking standpoint, but I'd bet there'd be an issue with 
>>using them against a 4.x MySQL.
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>And I'd say that just the fact that this sort of discussion is still
>happening, i.e. just what is/is not allowed re MySQL4 is reason enough to
>leave it out of any stable release until it sorts itself out.  It is hard
>enough to get buyin on a Free Software based project in many corporate
>environments, intentionally walking into a legal minefield sure wouldn't
>make those types feel safe.  Factor in MySQL AB's proven record for
>lawyering up, their obvious intention to milk cash from the license change
>and you have a recipe for well justified FUD.
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>Without the linkages to PHP, few will even care about the presence of
>MySQL and that is heart of the problem.  RH would be daft to leave out PHP
>in favor of MySQL because besides not solving anything, MySQL isn't even
>RH's preferred database solution.  RHDB (aka PostgreSQL) has no license
>problems with PHP.
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>In the end, MySQL AB changed their license and it is their burden to deal
>with the consequences of that action unless enough peeps find the new
>license terms unworkable, then perhaps the XFree86 example will prove 
>instructive.
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