SPAM-LOW: Re:Semi-OT: Database for "average" users

Fri May 6 19:15:18 UTC 2005

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:48:02PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> It seems totally erroneous to me to describe MySQL(tm) as "free software."

How about the one shipping with debian as mysql-server?  It appears to
claim to be GPL (with some lgpl and bsd licensed components too).  Maybe
4.x is free.

Versions 3.22 and earlier were far from free.

Not that I actually personally would ever pick mysql over postgresql.

Lennart Sorensen
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