Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2501 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 48820 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 17:55:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 17:55:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 25281 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 17:54:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO andi-home.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 17:54:54 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030621205823.02f98898@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: andi@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:58:41 +0200 To: Sterling Hughes ,internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030621201722.02c34d00@127.0.0.1> References: <1056210210.26964.4.camel@hasele> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) By the way, was there an official MySQL announcement about the move to GPL? Andi At 08:17 PM 6/21/2003 +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote: >At 11:43 AM 6/21/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: >>Hey, >> >>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. >> >>Speak now, or forever hold your peace. ;-) > >+1 from me. It's their loss more than it is ours. > >Andi > > >-- >PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php