Hi all, as maintainer of ext/mysql and ext/mysqli I'm standing between php and mysql, and I spent a lot of time on both extensions, so don't ask me :)
Currently bundled libmysql prevents users to violate license. If you need an external lib, you normally download latest stable, which is 4.0.x and is GPL. According to the MySQL license, you need a commercial license when using PHP 4 with MySQL 4.x, cause PHP license isn't a) OSI approved and b) GPL compatible. We have the same problem with ext/mysqli which isn't compatible to GPL, and will be removed therefore from PHP 5 beta. The combination with MySQL was one of the reasons that PHP growed up to one of the best and most used scripting languages. PHP was one reason, that MySQL became one the most popular OpenSource databases. So I ask you, is it really necessary, that we try to force a decision. Zak is already working on license problems, incompatibility and possible solutions. Wouldn't it be better to give him and MySQL AB a little bit more time? Just my 2 cents Georg -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
