MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software package.
The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found alongside each other so often, along with the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, that there's an acronym, LAMP, to label the software combination. On Thursday night, MySQL published a license exception that, the company said, permits PHP to resume its previous practice of bundling MySQL components called libraries, said Zack Urlocker, MySQL's vice president of marketing.
News source: C|Net News.com
The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found alongside each other so often, along with the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, that there's an acronym, LAMP, to label the software combination. On Thursday night, MySQL published a license exception that, the company said, permits PHP to resume its previous practice of bundling MySQL components called libraries, said Zack Urlocker, MySQL's vice president of marketing.
News source: C|Net News.com
bundling SQlite instead. That of course doesn't mean any less support for
MySQL. The MySQL extension, 2 of them in fact in PHP5, will still be
there and you simply build it against your own copy of the MySQL client
library.
-Rasmus
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Users will still install what works.
(Before this you will have had to compile it with the extension for MySQL support.)
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