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Gov't GSA Office goes MySQL

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gov't-approved dept.

comforteagle writes "MySQL has won a five year contract with the US General Services Administration office putting it in yet another government office on top of NASA, the Dept. of Def., Los Alamos National Labs & the Census Bureau. This additional win allows around 70 Government customers to purchase and deploy MySQL."

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  1. aiyah by damneinstien · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Sell a free product to the U.S. Government for huge sums of money.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  2. Look.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look buddy, I don't give a damn who uses MySQL. MySQL basically wrote a big "fuck you" to all the users before the license change. Wasn't real nice of the MySQL AB to make such a decision. Even then! They place a complicated page on the licensing stating MySQL is GPL, however! they try to use some type of licensing BS saying if you use mysql on a deployed platform, you must pay fees. This is *not* how the GPL works. MySQL is *not* free software since the license change. I should be able to use a (for example) pure mysql ruby based client to access MySQL server without MySQL AB jumping down my throat. Its *perfectly* legal and *does* *not* break GPL if you use a per say.. proprietary library to connect to it when you are just trying to use the friggen library. Even then! Because I'm using a ruby library, the definition of "linking" or "using" a library doesn't exactlty fall in to a catagory of how ruby uses code(even other scripting languages for the matter, which use a pure *language here* solution).

    Any comments? Because even when you start asking these type of license questions, you get flamed by everyone just because you've found a loop in their licensing scheme.