Re: Non GPL Python MySQL Client Library.

From: Dennis Lee Bieber (wlfraed_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:16:00 GMT

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:50:47 +0200, Lothar Scholz
<dummy@scriptolutions.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> Now this world becomes to look more and more like Micrsosoft,
> especially if you keep in mind that MySQL AB is now owned by the
> worlds 3rd largest Software Company SAP.

        And when did that transaction take place? The last I'd seen was
that MySQL AB essentially took over development of SAP DB (MaxDB by
MySQL is SAP DB's next version, in effect). SAP had "opened" SAP DB a
few years back, preferring to stick to a core business of supporting
business users with the front-end applications (SAP R/3).

        MaxDB is available under essentially the same license(s) as
MySQL.

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