On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:02:30AM -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> 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.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you shure about this?
The sources of MySQL-3.22.30 are freely downloadable from the authors
site (and it's mirrors):
http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-3.22/mysql-3.22.30.tar.gz
There is of course a special licence in opposite to MySQL_GPL:
....
* For normal internal use, MySQL generally costs nothing. You do not
have to pay us if you do not want to.
* A license is required if:
o You sell the MySQL server directly or as a part of another
product or service.
o You charge for installing and maintaining a MySQL server at
some client site.
o You include MySQL in a distribution that is non
redistributable and you charge for some part of that
distribution.
....
Maybe the latter belongs to shipping with Mandrake. But, I think,
Mandrake *IS* fully redistributable. And, no one has to pay for Mandrake
if she/he doesn't want to and if equiped with a reliable ADSL line. :-)
See their pages
http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Licensing_and_Support.html
and for downloading
http://www.mysql.com/download.html
there are RPM's from recent versions also.
Liebe Gr��e, Nora.
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