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Re: LDP bug-tracker

We could use Postgres

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On 15 Sep 1999, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:

> >>>>> "I" == Ismael Olea <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>     I> Gary Lawrence Murphy escribi�:
> 
>     >> I'm interested in any others if there are open source problem
>     >> trackers, and especially any based on Postgres (bugzilla is
>     >> tied to the non-OS MySQL)
> 
>     I> There is a GPL version of MySQL.
> 
> Not according to the MySQL website --- only old and obsolete versions
> are under GPL
> 
> >From http://www.tcx.se/Manual_chapter/manual_Licensing_and_Support.html
> 
>     3.2.1 Possible future copyright changes
> 
>     We may choose to distribute older versions of MySQL with the GPL in
>     the future. However, these versions will be identified as GNU
>     MySQL. Also, all copyright notices in the relevant files will be
>     changed to the GPL.
> 
> As it stands right now, only MySQL_GPL 3.20.32a is available, which
> means it is up to the community to reverse engineer all the bug fixes
> employed since then, and tcx is not going to provide any tech support;
> their resources are going only into their commercial release --- at
> least Netscape is employing full-time resources to manage and develop
> Mozilla.
> 
> Although it technically is GPL, this is not what I would call GPL ---
> someday, if the community takes 3.20.32a, figures out how to fix it
> and works it into something superior to or at least comparable to the
> mainstream release, but for right now, they are basically giving us
> their garbage so they won't be responsible to provide support for code
> to their paying customers.  If you ask me, the whole deal smells kind
> of funny.
> 
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