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.'"

Comments

What about me?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a Python guy and I feel fucked over.

Re:What about me?

[Anonymous Coward]

Concider outsourcing your python to Phpistan.

OurSQL fork...

[turnstyle]

"...unable to do the heavy programming required to create a new branch from old MySQL code."

What heavy programming? After all, can't you just take it, change a few lines and call it OurSQL?

Re:OurSQL fork...

[rifter]

Why not? Who's to say how much of a project needs to change in order to consider it forked? Obviously to keep it moving forward would take serious ongoing work, but it seems like releasing it as a simple fork would be trivial.

It's not so much that as adding (and rewriting) the features and patches developed since the old version of MySQL was released. Then you have to maintain this new fork without the benefit of all the coders who disagree with your need for the fork and are currently working on the real MySQL as opposed to WankerSQL :).

Re:Who moderated this insightful! Its flamebait!

[Anonymous Coward]

Where did the poster say that installing Linux was hard or didn't work? It sounds like you are suffering from a spontaneous auto-wedgie.

Phrase

[macdaddy]

...hung up on religious adherence to GPL principles.

I think the phrase you're looking for is "GNU Dogma." Correct?

Bloody ASP

[ChopsMIDI]

Years ago I worked on ASP/SQL Server solutions and where you had to go with native code for high-performance

Let's not forget that oh so common feature of Formatting Dates in ASP, you need to link native code for the "Format" function in VB (since FormatDate gives you a whopping 4 options) to get some even remotely as close to the power of the simple "date" function in PHP. Pretty shitty. God I hate ASP.

Re:I don't see a problem with it...

[Tablizer]

It's not at the Fizbin or Dragon Poker level yet, thank Ghod.

Fizbin! An obscure OS Trek reference where Kirk makes up a phoney "Earth game" to confuse warring factions on a planet that copied the 1920's earth styles, including Chicago gangs. It was fun watching spock trying to learn to bullshit, an activity that he clearly did not like......at first. Classic.

Exception?

[lpangelrob2]

Crap, I knew this was gonna happen....

catch (Exception $mysqlException) {
echo $mysqlException->getMessage();
}

All right, should be fixed. :-)

Re:MySql

[Billly Gates]

Because Linux cannot compete with Windows in terms of features that count for the target scenarios.

The Linux how-to's are underdocumented, the MSDN online documentation simply excels.

There is no readily available workforce that has actual Linux knowledge compared to MCSE's. There are on the other hand buttloads of people available that can drive average sized Windows installations for cheap money.

Linux does not support shared ole/com business apps as good as Windows. That's sharing the same machine with a active directory, and that's sharing multiple logical MS-SQL server databases as in a hosting environment (including putting the actual data files into each customers profiles). Windows does this very well.

Unix LPAD replication is regarded mostly experimental and is not properly integrated with the server. In larger Windows/Active directory deployments, replication is often used for load sharing (direct read only queries against any replica), and for backups of profiles.

Linux already has many features Windows2k3 either just got with 4.1 or is planned to get in longhorn. That is useless, though, if you do not need these features, but need to deploy in a hosted standard shared environment, relying on the available workforce.

Still, this is a large window of opportunity for Linux, if Linux plays this correctly. So where are the Windows migration guides, the "Hosting with Linux" Setup-Howtos, and where is the "Using LPAD/Kerbos replication how-to's" tutorial?

MySQL writes exceptions for PHP

[Anonymous Coward]

So that explains all those exceptions I see on articles linked from here.... And all this time I just thought they were slashdotted!

This licensing stuff is getting ridiculous

[TheLink]

Is anyone tempted to release some cool software/music/stuff/work with a default restrictive licenses (must pay etc etc), but have some exceptions like:

You are free to distribute Derivative/Identical Works as long as:
1) Every Feb 1st and August 17th you go to a public area with at least 20 strangers present, stand on one leg and yell "foobar bubble bubble!" including the double quotes.
Or
2) Every full moon you infringe the MySQL and Microsoft software licenses, and email them a goatse.cx/tubgirl pic.
Or
3) You do an anonymous, random (and different) quirky good deed to a random (and different) stranger every month - only counts if the target will likely think it is good.

AND you claim that Al Gore is the actual author of the works.

Sheesh.

mod parent up

[Douglas Simmons]

right on man, i hate jerkoffs like this guy. The stigma gets perpetuated when people separate psychological from somatic diseases, make dumbass jokes, etc.

By the way, bipolar disorder has a mortality rate of 20% which is higher than those of most heart diseases and cancer. In other words, if you have a bipolar kid and a kid with cancer, it is likely that the crazy kid will outlive the cancer boy. And manic depression is a much easier disorder to deal with than schizophrenia, despite what you may have deduced from watching A Beautiful Mind. If you're schizo, you're basically fucked.

Re:It had to happen.

[PyromanFO]

Jeez...a chicken in every pot and a different license for every program. Soon, a program will be 70% license and 30% code.

So the open source community is finally catching up to the propietary software business!