Older versions of mysql (3.20.+) are GPL
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Brian Baquiran wrote:
> ..
> > MySQL and MSQL are, last I checked, free beer but not free speech. Has
> > this changed?
>
> MySQL can be considered free speech. It's not GPL (read all about Monty's
> philosophies that GPL is not suited for client-server apps) but the source
> is all there. Andover.NET is subsidizing MySQL development now.
>
> As for MSQL.. fergeddaboutit. It may have been "big" once but it has no
> compelling advantages over MySQL (single-threaded, hello?) and is not even
> free beer..
>
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