> ------------------------------ > > > I have just recently posted a similar request and I guess the Fedora > > steering committee must finally take up it's resposibility for a > > community driven project and accept that they need to have a separate > > MySQL package for Fedora and RHEL. BTW, I very much doubt that people > > buying RHEL are happy with this archaic MySQL version either. > > > > Tom > > Oh, please! > > Do you think complaining to Red Hat about MySQL is going to change > MySQL's licensing? The reported exception has been found to be > insufficient. Until that changes, MySQL has licensed themselves into > obscurity, just like XFree86 has. Game Over. Use postgres. Given that it's RedHat that seems to have the issue with the licensing, I personally don't see the problem with complaining to RedHat about it. I just checked SuSE's site and they don't seem to have any qualms whatsoever about providing the 4.x RPMS within their distribution that last I checked they were also selling commercially. I think it's about time that RedHat and the mySQL people stop playing the blame game and come up with an agreeable compromise. The fact that it's been over a year and this still hasn't been fixed unconscionable.
