Re: [Cooker] MySQL-GPL or MySQL
On 14 Jan 2000, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > > "W" == WH Bouterse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > W> Well evidently due to some new legal snafu's The formal 7.0 > W> release now has ; MySQL_GPL-3.20.32a-1 > > W> While contribs has; MySQL-3.22.25-6 > > W> Could some gifted MySQL person offer some suggestions to less > W> evolved Mandrake users and practicioners? > > What do you need to know? 3.20 is a GPL release which is unsupported > by the authors, whereas the more stable and debugged 3.22 is > proprietary software, and as such is available in binary form only. Hmm more correctly we can't support it, install it, or modify it, without a license. Also it does get built from source. > My guess is that you could only distribute the binary with Mandrake if > you licence it, so you have the GPL in the installation, but can offer > a mirror of the commercial release (are these fairly similar rules to > distributing StarOffice or Corel WP/Linux?) They are different, all of them :) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [Cooker] MySQL-GPL or MySQL
> "W" == WH Bouterse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: W> Well evidently due to some new legal snafu's The formal 7.0 W> release now has ; MySQL_GPL-3.20.32a-1 W> While contribs has; MySQL-3.22.25-6 W> Could some gifted MySQL person offer some suggestions to less W> evolved Mandrake users and practicioners? What do you need to know? 3.20 is a GPL release which is unsupported by the authors, whereas the more stable and debugged 3.22 is proprietary software, and as such is available in binary form only. My guess is that you could only distribute the binary with Mandrake if you licence it, so you have the GPL in the installation, but can offer a mirror of the commercial release (are these fairly similar rules to distributing StarOffice or Corel WP/Linux?) -- Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Telecom Services : Internet Consulting : http://www.teledyn.com Linux/GNU Education Group: http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-education/ "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
