What or how does some mail client produces this as the subject? Re: [Centos] centos4/rhes4 - mysql4? <41F17676.8010805@xxxxxxxxxxx> <1106360894.3956.4.camel@azure> <200501212213.38994.loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -Mike Steve Meyers wrote: > Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > >> That's one of the things I love about open source. If somebody gets >> too big for their britches (*cough* MySQL = Microsoft *cough*) then >> there's somebody else who'll step into play and take over for those >> of us who don't like the fecal matter spewing forth. > > > I think the whole thing's kinda funny, really. MySQL switched to the > GPL for their libraries (from the LGPL). Usually, people get upset at > the non-GPL folks. The problem with RHEL and MySQL is that PHP is > linked against MySQL, and it's not compatible with the GPL. Why isn't > anyone upset with PHP about this? > > In any case, it probably wouldn't take a genius to rewrite the MySQL > libraries from scratch and release it under the LGPL. Eventually, > someone will probably do that. > > Steve Meyers > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos