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MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready

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Version 4.1 of the MySQL database has been released. "Certified by the company as production-ready for large-scale enterprise deployment, this significant upgrade to the MySQL database server features advanced querying capabilities through subqueries, faster and more secure client-server communication, new installation and configuration tools, and support for international character sets and geographic data."
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MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready

Posted Nov 4, 2004 14:57 UTC (Thu) by brandonp (guest, #5563) [Link]

Will we see MySQL 4.x being included in more Linux Distributions in the future? Will distributions like Redhat move from 3.2x to the more recent versions?

What is the state of Licensing problems for this software?

Brandon Petersen
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Licensing problems?

Posted Nov 11, 2004 16:12 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link]

What licensing problems?

I'm pretty sure it's GPL.

Also, MySQL 4.0 has been standard in Gentoo since July 2003. Gentoo
rocks! :)

MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready

Posted Dec 9, 2004 2:18 UTC (Thu) by barrygould (guest, #4774) [Link]

The problem is PHP's license, which is not GPL compatible. PHP compiles with the MySQL libraries.

The MySQL 3.x libraries were LGPL licensed, but 4.x is GPL.

MySQL is working on a solution as PHP seems to be unwilling to change their license.

Barry

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