On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > > Postgres is "free-er" if that matters to you, but either one will give you > > full source for free so it may not. > > I thing You're not right about this. You can download the Source of > PostgreSQL at http://www.postgresql.org (or http://gd.tuwien.ac.at:8040/).
That's what I said. Full source is freely available for both. The difference is that MySQL's licence does not allow you to resell it, or to sell products that require it. Postgres is under a less restrictive license, though I do not remember what the exact terms are. For an educational user I think either one has acceptable license terms.
