[Centos] Broken mail client? Was: centos4/rhes4 - mysql4?

Michael Best mbest at pendragon.org
Mon Jan 24 16:08:04 UTC 2005


What or how does some mail client produces this as the subject?

Re: [Centos] centos4/rhes4 - mysql4?    
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-Mike

Steve Meyers wrote:

> 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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