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From: Steve Rodgers <steve.rodgers@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:56:46
Message-Id: 200601031853.15003.steve.rodgers@ts-a.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql commercial by Steve Rodgers
1 I don't mind maintaining it though on amd64 if it would be of use.
2 This will be maintained by me anyway internally - would it be useful to sign up as a developer?
3 There are other apps I have been building ebuilds for - such as ChartDirector - another
4 commercial app - which I could contribute too.
5
6 steve
7
8 On Tuesday 03 Jan 2006 18:51, Steve Rodgers wrote:
9 SR> so unless it's of real use to others I might just continue to support it myself.
10 SR> I'm already packaging up other internal apps using a portage overlay.
11 SR>
12 SR> FYI - if you deploy an app which is non-gpl which links against mysql libs then
13 SR> you need to deploy against a commercial version of mysql.
14 SR> this is built and maintained in binary format by mysql - and requires
15 SR> username/password to download.
16 SR>
17 SR> there are various packages - rpms and tarballs available.
18 SR>
19 SR> for commercial apps using the mysql c api you must use commercial mysql - if you
20 SR> use e.g. php then that's ok as there is a php clause in the license.
21 SR>
22 SR> Steve
23 SR>
24 SR> On Tuesday 03 Jan 2006 18:36, Francesco Riosa wrote:
25 SR> FR> Jakub Moc wrote:
26 SR> FR> [...]
27 SR> FR> > Dunno what exactly "commercial" means here, it you mean official -bin,
28 SR> FR> > there's some overlay and ebuilds in Bug 83424, there's also some weird
29 SR> FR> [...]
30 SR> FR>
31 SR> FR> Please forget that one, it's broken, and the quantity and the size of
32 SR> FR> the binary packages to download make an hell to maintain it, i.e.
33 SR> FR> (unless you want to maintain just x86 and amd64 ARCHs)
34 SR> FR>
35 SR>
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