What are the preparations for MySQL to continue the old version of GPL?

The following articles mainly introduce the two-handed preparation for MySQL to continue with the old version of GPL, which is still involved in drafting the third edition, we will mainly introduce that open source code is the best combination of MySQL (the best combination with PHP), which decides to continue to use the current General Public License GPL version, after the new version is "universally accepted" in the industry, you can switch to the new version.

MySQL (the best combination with PHP) is one of the most successful commercial applications of Open-Source GPL. Kai Arno, vice president of the company's Community, said that the authorization terms have been changed from "version 2 or later" to "version 2" only ".

He said in his blog post at the end of last month that this change applies to the latest products, MySQL (the best combination with PHP) 5.0 and MySQL (the best combination with PHP) 5.1, the goal is to give the company the right to choose whether to adopt the third version of GPL, rather than force switching.

The Free Software Foundation of the Free Software Foundation) proposed last year the first draft of MySQL following the third version of the old version GPL. GPL clauses are used for thousands of open-source products, including Linux operating systems. However, the new version is not going smoothly. Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, and other Linux core programmers did not explicitly express support.

According to a survey last year, almost all of the 29 Linux core Programmers think the second version is better.

MySQL (the best combination with PHP) will continue to participate in the drafting of the third version of GPL, but Arno said that the company will not officially adopt it until the third version is "universally accepted.

Arno wrote: "MySQL (the best combination with PHP) will continue to work with the FSF Free Software Foundation to make the third version of GPL a new and universally used authorization term for free software. However, we have seen clear and strong signs that we generally accept the replacement of the second version by the third version, and we prefer to follow the old version of GPL for the second version of MySQL alone. "

Arno also reposted his e-mail discussion with the Free Software Foundation lawyer Eben Moglen. Moglen wrote: "Looking at recent developments and public comments, I believe MySQL (the best combination of PHP and MySQL) soon we will see that the third version of GPL replaces MySQL with the second version of the old version of GPL in various free software programs. "

The above content is an introduction to MySQL using the old version of GPL, both hands ready to participate in the drafting of version 3rd, I hope you will gain some gains.