Re: ITP: Slash, Sourceforge

[Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:38:07AM -0500 , Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> 
> > Just make sure that they only go into contrib, then, unless somebody
> > packages the free version of MySQL.
> > 
> 
> Hmmm... apt-cache search shows there is a mysql-client-gpl, is their any
> reason why no one has packaged the server?

All mysql except server is GPL'd. So the version in main and non-free are
identical (minus package name). The GPL mysql server is (way) older and would
require also older libs, which wouldn't coexist happilly with the new ones.

				Petr Cech
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