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Dr.Strangelove

2004-11-04, 7:45 am

hi! this might be stupid question but I'm newbie and I'm really
curious
Why Fedora 2 comes with package mysql-3.23.xx when there is newer
version of mysql server (4.xxx).
Is there any stability or license issues with version 3.23.xx or what?
thanks...
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Markku Kolkka

2004-11-04, 7:45 am

Dr.Strangelove wrote:
> Why Fedora 2 comes with package mysql-3.23.xx when there is newer
> version of mysql server (4.xxx).
> Is there any stability or license issues with version 3.23.xx or what?


License issues. Search the fedora-devel-list archives at
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/ for the relevant
flame wars.

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Markku Kolkka
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Dr.Strangelove

2004-11-04, 5:45 pm

> License issues. Search the fedora-devel-list archives at
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/ for the relevant
> flame wars.

thanks for reply, but...
searching through devel-list archives I've found this:
MySQL 3.x client libraries - LGPL
MySQL 4.x client libraries - GPL (whole mysql 4 is GPL)
PHP license is not GPL (it is much more BSD-like)
Fedora Core is GPL. All the software in Fedora Core 1 is GPL
No, not at all. There are a wide varity of licenses in Fedora.
We cannot put mysql 4.x in Fedora collection because it is
GPL but we will allow php which is not?!!
my personal opinion: it's really stupid to throw away mysql 4
so I've found a solution at fedoranews.org:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/tony_smith/mysql/
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