On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:22:15PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > I *thought* that MySQL AB was coming up with some sort of exception > > for GPL'd free software but I don't remember if that got resolved. > > > oh, that's nice for them
I checked into it. They're still working on it. I guess the lawyers aren't quite done yet. > > Perhaps more pressure is needed? > > > yes, I guess if we all have to disable mysql support in our projects, > that's going to be some kind of pressure. As I said, we don't want to do > that, but if there's no solution, we'll be forced to. > > Do you know any other projects in the same situation? > > > I'll check with a few folks and see if I can turn up something... > > > ok, thanks. Please keep us informed. I've suggested that they at least put up a notice on the web site (and this mailing list) which explains their intentions so that you and other GPL'd projects don't needlessly waste time disabling MySQL support and then re-enabling it later. Hopefully something like that will happen soon. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]