RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP] PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1
| From: | Steven Brown | Date: | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 03:45:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP] PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1 | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:02 PM
> To: Robert Cummings
> Cc: Sterling Hughes; PHP Developers Mailing List;
> php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP] PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Robert Cummings wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 14:19, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > > - Due to issues surrounding the MySQL 4.0 license, the
> MySQL libraries
> > > are no longer bundled with PHP. For more information on these
> > > licensing changes please see the MySQL licensing policy [1]
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html
> >
> > I read the licensing information in the above link, but I'm curious
> > what exactly in it necessitated the need to unbundle MySQL? Anyone
> > have a quick answer?
>
> It's GPL.
Does this mean that non-GPL projects written in PHP will soon have to
buy a license for MySQL or migrate off it?