Re: Intent to move mysql-base and mysql-dev to main
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 11:14:30PM +0200, Scott Hanson wrote:
> As a result of the recent discussion about linking free code to
> non-free libraries, I've decided to split off the free portions of the
> mysql source code to produce mysql-base (client and shared libraries)
> and mysql-dev (development libraries) packages for main in slink. This
> source code is either 'Public Domain' or GPL'd.
> The non-free 'Mysql Free Public License' (similar to the Aladdin
> Ghostscript license, allowing all use but prohibiting sale) applies
> only to the mysql server source, and the mysql-server package will
> remain in non-free.
> Moving the base and dev packages to main means that packages that link
> to libmysqlclient (and thus depend on the mysql-base package) will be
> able to go into main as well (instead of contrib).
Why main? What good is the client without the server? Can you use it
with other databases or something?
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