Will FC2 have MySQL 4?

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Tue Feb 24 12:30:04 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 07:29 -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:21:55 -0000 Nigel <ncc-lists at rentokil.com> wrote:
> > Doesn't the MySQL AB licence allow for non commercial redistribution?
> > That would allow FC but not AS, ES WS etc.
> 
> it would allow Fedora distribution, but might blindside businesses
> that are unaware of MySQL AB's license terms.

*cof*cof* both of you are wrong.

MySQL is GPL'ed which allows and is a good incentive for commercial
redistribution.

What it is not good for is proprietary software distribution, which is a
totally _different_ thing.

Rui

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