Does anyone have any info (howto's, guides etc) on MySQL? I think it could
be pretty useful. Then again, a complete E-Commerce server howto would be
mighty useful!
Steve
Project Leader, Guven Linux
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 July 2000 10:05
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MySQL GPL'd... possible RH inclusion?
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Joe Brenner 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.
Yep. I saw the announcement on /. today or yesterday.
>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.
I'm not familiar with all that you mention, however it does
happen from vendor to vendor. The important thing is that we
recognize vendors that "see the light" and accept them. They
will hopefully succeed, and realize they did the right
thing. Then they are more likely to release future products in a
similar manner. This has an effect on other competitors
decisions as well, as well as other companies with totally
different software.
>It's a good thing... MySQL was getting harder to avoid
>than Microsoft products.
I grabbed MySQL from powertools I believe, and the perl modules,
etc.. from CPAN powertools, and never looked back... Hopefully
RedHat 7.0 will have it all out of the box. If not... powertools
likely will so all won't be lost. ;o)
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