Re: default mysql -> mariadb

[Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Le mer. 26 mai 2021 à 19:27, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> a écrit :
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> Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
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> > Le mer. 26 mai 2021 à 18:49, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> a écrit :
> >> However, as already mentioned, most free operating systems are still
> >> opting to default to MariaDB.
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> > For example AFAIK Debian does not even package MySQL, because MySQL is
> > non-commercial use only, unless you take a license from Oracle.
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> The mysql80 packages are marked gnu-gpl-v2.  If that's wrong it would be
> good to fix.

I rechecked, the LICENSE distributed with the tar says it's GPLv2. So
I misremembered/thought wrong, and I won't know the reasons why Debian
replaced MySQL with MariaDB in Stretch.

Jaromir