Re: Which DBMS?

Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaques) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> The world rejoiced as "Deano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Christopher Browne wrote:
>> >> Quoth "Deano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >>> In my last job, only the more complex apps that also required the
>> >>> user to be able to workoffline used Access.  Mostly everything else
>> >>> was web-based and worked quite well using SQL Server and various
>> >>> scripting languages.  Another option is the cheaper PHP/MySQL route.
>> >>
>> >> Why would you consider PHP/MySQL a "cheaper" route?
>> >
>> > Because I don't know what i'm talking about!  In that respect anyhow...
>> > At my last job  I'm pretty sure we didn't pay up for the PHP/MySQL solutions
>> > which were used pretty extensively.
>> 
>> The licensing of MySQL has changed lately, which has had the effect
>> that the PHP distribution can no longer include MySQL client libraries
>> since they are incompatible with PHP's licensing.
>
> Could you tell us how MySQL has changed the licensing?

Client libraries used to be available under the LGPL (Library GPL)
license; they are now only available under the GPL.

The vendor seems to think that this means that any application that
connects to the database must either:
 a) Be licensed under the GPL, or
 b) You'll have to pay the $425/$495/whatever for a "commercial
    license."
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