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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Due to the MySQL client library changing it's licensing terms from public domain
> to GPL it can no longer be included with PHP. A "clause" is being worked on to
> allow for this in the future.
This is only true for libmysql 4. It iw perfectly to bundle the 3.x
libraries, but we still do not do that because our policy is not to
bundling something that doesn't make sense. If you install MYSQL on your
server, you usually install the client libraries too, so there is no
realy problem here at all.
> > 4. i can't understand why they call it php5 beta1 , as long as mysql doesnt
> > work it can only called php5 alpha zero.
Then it will always be an alpha. And MySQL does work fine, you just have
to install the client libraries yourself.
Derick
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