Johan van Zyl wrote:

>> except when distributed
>>together with your Clarion application.
>
> Even if you dont distribute it, its not free when used with a commercial
> app. I specifically queried MySQL sales about this in a number of
> scenarios, including putting it on our cd, telling our users to download
> "some SQL server but no specific one" and so on. I did this because their
> site was (is?) confusing about it and there were tons of posts floating
> around here in the NGs saying "MySQL is free". Their response left no
> doubt: if you are using it for a commercial app that isnt GNU'd, your users
> cant use it for free.

The PHP group have drooped including MySQL by default with
PHP5 for the simple reason that the licence conditions have
been changed. MySQL have apparently not liked that move and
have been pressuring for it's return, but hopefully we are
now on a more than equal footing with MySQL given the
additional facilities that Firebird can provide.

The question now is how to create an easy path for the
conversion of MySQL metadata into Firebird format :)
Any suggestions gratefully received (Off list) - I'm trying
to document it ;)

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