On Don, 2004-09-09 at 22:19 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
The problem with that is that some of the things that link against
the
library are under licenses that are not GPL compatible (like PHP), so
with the newer versions of MySQL, you end up building something that
can't be distributed.
MySQL has been made aware of this problem and provided the FLOSS
exception:
http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html
Not to mention that numerous other distributions already include
MySQL-4: Rock Linux, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo,...
Tom
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