From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> > We would not build and distribute either of these things if they were > not released via the GPL. The RPMS/SRPMS that we are distributing are > indeed GPL. We firmly agree with RedHat on this issue (that only GPL > things should be distributed). The problem is that many distros are statically building MySQL 4 with some non-GPL components. Some of the terms/definitions on static v. dynamic building changed from MySQL 3 to MySQL 4. I'll look into some of the latest Fedora Development and see if they are approaching such now. But one thing Red Hat seems to be doing is avoiding a lot of the MySQL 4 developments because of MySQL AB's changes. > CentOS will also not include in our repos anything that is not allowed > to be re-distributed due to patents or US DMCA. And I've noted that. I said that's why I don't use "pure" Fedora (Core, Extras) or Debian-bases (both RHEL and CentOS fall into that as well), and avoid both Livna.ORG and DAG in a commercial environment. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org