Longest Running Linux Distribution Slackware Adopts MariaDB

First time accepted submitter Gerardo Zamudio writes with the news that Ur-distribution Slackware is replacing MySQL with MariaDB. From an update posted to the Slackware news feed yesterday: "This shouldn't really be a surprise on any level. The poll on LQ showed a large majority of our users were in favor of the change. It's my belief that the MariaDB Foundation will do a better job with the code, be more responsive to security concerns, and be more willing to work with the open source community. And while I don't think there is currently any issue with MySQL's licensing of the community edition for commercial uses, several threads on LQ showed that there is confusion about this, whereas with MariaDB the freedom to use the software is quite clear." (Here's a link to the mentioned poll.)

Comments

GPL and LGPL?

[Anonymous Coward]

A quick google says MariaDB is GPL.. How is that a better license for commercial development than MySQL? GPL is a terrible license for using in commercial software. https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-license/

Re:GPL and LGPL?

[w_dragon]

The mariadb c connector license is LGPL, the mysql one is GPL. Not a lot of companies will create a derivative work of the database server, but a lot will want to link against the client api.

Re: Longest Running Linux Distribution

[Anonymous Coward]

yes, as it shows that a important distro, known to not doing risky decisions and taking stability as a main goal, will make what everyone thinks but little admit

Re:Frosty piss

[mwvdlee]

SQL server a real database... that's +1 funny!