On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:53:59 +0000, you wrote: >> However the ones who *really* pay attention won't do it with MySQL 4 >> because it violates the MySQL license. > >Not exactly. The GPL only adds restrictions upon distribution acts. The >software that depends on PHP does not link with it. What links with >mysql and is being distributed is PHP, and here is the problem. Nope. See the following from the GPL FAQ ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL ): --- If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does that mean that any program which uses it has to be under the GPL? Yes, because the program as it is actually run includes the library. --- So with the change of the MySQL libraries from LGPL to GPL this means PHP *cannot* be linked to the free version of MySQL 4 because PHP is not GPL. Distribution is irrelevant to the PHP/MySQL issue.
