The MySQL question.

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Fri Sep 10 11:06:44 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:33:54PM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> MySQL has been made aware of this problem and provided the FLOSS
> exception:
> http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html

But not yet released anything with that license, nor fixed up some of
the corner cases.

> Not to mention that numerous other distributions already include
> MySQL-4: Rock Linux, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo,...

Red Hat is obliged to follow the law and its lawyers recommendations. 

However from your previous ranting about postgres I guess you've got a
personal agenda that isn't about facts anyway

Alan





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