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MySQL Writes Exception for PHP in License

ryanjensen writes "According to an article on News.com, MySQL wrote an exception into its license to allow PHP to use its libraries. From the article: 'Because MySQL owns copyright to all the MySQL code, it can include additional license provisions to its software. The new provision, called the Free and Open Source Software License Exception, enables people to use MySQL client libraries with other open-source projects under other open-source licenses other than the GPL.'"

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  1. omg pwned by bare LOFL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
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  4. Who moderated this insightful! Its flamebait! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  5. Popular != Better by Tassach · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It's a shame that people waste years learning an inferior tool like MySQL and then refuse to take that knowledge and apply it to a real database. Not only that, because MySQL lacks essential features like triggers and stored procedures, people who use MySQL never learn *why* you need them. MySQL teaches people bad habits that they then refuse to unlearn; all too often, they cop an attitude rather than face the reality that they're wrong.

    As relational databases go, MySQL is utter crap. Even in the realm of open-source databases, there are better choices. Just because it's *possible* to do some jobs with MySQL, doesn't mean that it's a good idea. Anything that can be done with MySQL could be done as well or better with MS-Access. No one in their right mind would consider building a serious web application around Access, but people think using MySQL is ok for some bizarre reason.

    --
    Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
  6. Re:It had to happen. by destiney · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Most PHP coders are not even scriptkiddie level. Most of them barely even know HTML. Spend a day on the php-general list serve and you'll see.

    I'd say there are thousands more Perl and C script kiddies out there than there are PHP ones.

    Or maybe you're just jealous cause you're still hanging on to Perl like that old pair of shoes that still fits really good. Either way, PHP is here to stay, so deal with it.

    Anyone building dynamic websites with anything else is wasting time.

  7. The answer: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    PostGreSQL

    I don't know why all you morons are so slavishly attached to MySQL. I know from my own benchmarks on tests designed to emulate my web page's usage that PostGreSQL is faster. It's much more SQL standards compliant.

    Have you ever noticed that LinuxJournal, LinuxToday, etc, are always pumping out MySQL articles ? I think that it has something to do with MySQL's corporate money.

    Have you ever noticed they similarly push PHP to the hilt ? And that PHP is ungoddly slow, lacking features of the most moderately advanced interpreters, so that is runs slower if your variable names are longer ? Or that it is so unoptimizes that for() and do { } while () loops with the same conditions have wildly different run times ? And that Zend helply sells a COMMERCIAL optimizer ? You think maybe most of the guys working on PHP have no incentive to speed it up, because their paychecks are paid by selling a closed source application to speed it up ?

    Notice that according to posts on comp.lang.php and elsewhere, the new PHP 5 actually got slower, not faster.

    You know, maybe it's time for you fuckers to wake up. Read the licenses of your software and follow the money.