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 :)
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