> I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and
> remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect
> the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with
> PHP anymore. This is in a large part due to MySQL's decision to switch
> to using the GPL for their client libraries as well. Linkage will still
> be available, but we can't ship the GPL library, and the MySQL 3.2.23
> library can't connect to MySQL 4.1 servers, rendering it broken.
Go ahead.
There are rumours that MySQL AB does not want to provide a
license exemption. The only consequence is that we should
not steer users into their hands through simplified
deployment.
Actually, we should warn users of MySQL 3 that they won't be
able to use new versions of MySQL under the same conditions,
and that they should better look at Interbase/PostgreSQL.
- Sascha
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