On Mit, 2004-10-27 at 10:59 -0400, James Kosin wrote: > If all these things are true, then why doesn't Fedora Core x contain the > latest MySQL version? That is a very good question that has been the subject of many lengthy discussions here. To make a long story short: - MySQL has changed their license to GPL (or commercial) with release 4 - RedHat has pointed out that this does not allow shipping PHP binaries linked against MySQL - MySQL has provided the FOSS exception - RedHat came up with the lame excuse that their legal department is not satisfied with the FOSS exception but failed to provide any arguments > And like I said, I'm not a lawyer, so I'm a little rusty at interpreting > the underlying meaning on the license agreement; so, I default to the > Fedora managers that decided not to include MySQL4 for licensing reasons. The last refusal from RedHat came from Tom Lane who I know as a hardcore postgresql evangelist, see below: From rom Tom Lane (tgl@xxxxxxxxxx) on 2004-10-18 14:38 ------- > I would like nothing better than to drop 3.x and ship 4.x. Our legal > department is however unsatisfied with MySQL AB's FLOSS exception, and > the ball is in their court. http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=*postgresql*&as_uauthors=%22tom%20lane%22 Tom -- T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger thomasz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for key UNIX is user-friendly ... it's just selective about who it's friends are
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