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Drizzle Hits General Availability

Posted by timothy on from the general-availability-turns-up-face-in-wonder dept.

snydeq writes "MySQL fork Drizzle has been released for general availability, giving companies a viable alternative to Oracle-owned MySQL, InfoWorld reports. 'Organizations that have been seeking a less-expensive alternative to Oracle's brand of MySQL — or a variant devoid of feature bloat — now have an option that Drizzle's creators deem ready to package in Linux distributions.'"

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  1. Re:API License? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hi Bill,
    The main code is GPLv2, the libdrizzle client library is BSD and the docs are CC BY SA 3.0