"Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now that MySQL is GPL'd, does anyone at RedHat want to comment on
> the possibility of its inclusion in RedHat 6.3/7.0/whateverisnext?
I figured that you must be confused (The MySQL people
keep promising to GPL their *old* versions, but I'm
not sure they ever even did this much). But here it
is, straight from their site:
http://www.mysql.com/news/article-23.html:
"We have always considered ourselves committed
members of the Open Source and Free Software
communities," said Monty Widenius, project leader
on MySQL. Moving to the GNU General Public License (GPL)
is a way to show this". It is the latest beta (version
3.23.19) and all new releases that is being GPLed.
Now I'm going to have to take back all those nasty
things I said about them. I thought they were really
sleazy characters (it seemed to me like they were
trying to con people into thinking they were open
source when really they weren't; they've done an
embrace-and-extend number on SQL that I don't
appreciate; and they've had stuff up on their website
that looked an awful lot like intentional
disinformation about other projects, like postgresql).
But hey, maybe they've seen the light.
It's a good thing... MySQL was getting harder to avoid
than Microsoft products.
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