R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > >> Wonder if it's that they charge for support, from them, on >> InnoDB, not for the engine itself. I mean, it was GPL'd >> what, five or more years ago. >> > > As to already fielded sources under the GPL, they will persist > under the GPL, or course > > BUT ... you may wish to read all the files in: > /usr/share/doc/mysql-5.0.77/ > > -- Russ herrold > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I've noticed that the original author/founder of MySQL has created a new open source backward-compatible replacement for MySQL. I have not yet had a chance to try it, but intend to do so. See http://montyprogram.com/mariadb/ Nataraj