[Centos] centos4/rhes4 - mysql4? <41F17676.8010805 at birdvet.org> <1106360894.3956.4.camel at azure> <200501212213.38994.loony at loonybin.org>
Steve Meyers
steve-centos at spamwiz.com
Mon Jan 24 15:48:10 UTC 2005
Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> That's one of the things I love about open source. If somebody gets too
> big for their britches (*cough* MySQL = Microsoft *cough*) then there's
> somebody else who'll step into play and take over for those of us who
> don't like the fecal matter spewing forth.
I think the whole thing's kinda funny, really. MySQL switched to the
GPL for their libraries (from the LGPL). Usually, people get upset at
the non-GPL folks. The problem with RHEL and MySQL is that PHP is
linked against MySQL, and it's not compatible with the GPL. Why isn't
anyone upset with PHP about this?
In any case, it probably wouldn't take a genius to rewrite the MySQL
libraries from scratch and release it under the LGPL. Eventually,
someone will probably do that.
Steve Meyers
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