Re: latex/databases

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote:
> 
> At 08:58 AM 5/9/97 -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> >sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer) writes:
> >
> >> You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want,
> >> and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing
> >> list use it already.
> >
> >Thanks, but I wanted to stick to free software, if possible, and my
> >impression was that MySQL is not.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> It's as free as mSQL is, which is to say neither is completely free.  Read
> their LICENSING for more details, though.

I believe the client code is GPLed. The server code is free for personal
and other use as long as you don't charge for its use or sell it. (I think
this is correct)

Tim

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