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Tony Hoyle wrote:
>> But there's a warning on the site that some versions are still under
>> the old license:
>> http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/mypl.html
>
> The old license was LGPL, which is a much more free license, which is
> why we're able to use it.
btw. they're playing smoke and mirrors again by not admitting that their
old license was LGPL.
Here is the header from the mysql 3.23 client library:
/* Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
...
Tony