Newsgroups: php.general,php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.general:153329 php.internals:2978 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 18379 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2003 19:16:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO milton.schell.de) (217.160.72.35) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 2003 19:16:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 28028 invoked by uid 501); 29 Jun 2003 19:16:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eco.foo) (80.143.52.250) by kdserv.de with SMTP; 29 Jun 2003 19:16:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eco.foo (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9576D303A6; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:16:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:16:34 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: sas@eco.foo To: Derick Rethans Cc: Robert Cummings , Sterling Hughes , PHP Developers Mailing List , php-general@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1056910767.21536.46.camel@hasele> <1056912820.5209.8.camel@blobule.suds> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP] PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1 From: sascha@schumann.cx (Sascha Schumann) > 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? Note that the bundled library code was removed due to being unmaintained. The old bundled library code was in the public domain and thus not subject to the GPL. Only the MySQL 4 library is GPLed; the MySQL 3 library is not. It is unfortunate that some people try to confuse the public about this topic. - Sascha