12 messages in com.mysql.lists.win32Re: Why?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Steve Ruby | 28 Apr 2000 09:49 | |
| Bill Koob | 28 Apr 2000 09:50 | |
| mohammad iqbal | 28 Apr 2000 11:41 | |
| Craig Vincent | 28 Apr 2000 12:51 | |
| Steve Ruby | 28 Apr 2000 12:53 | |
| Ron Teitelbaum | 28 Apr 2000 12:55 | |
| Steve Ruby | 28 Apr 2000 12:58 | |
| PeterWR | 28 Apr 2000 14:56 | |
| Ramon Nours | 29 Apr 2000 08:15 | |
| mohammad iqbal | 29 Apr 2000 09:44 | |
| Tonu Samuel | 29 Apr 2000 11:08 | |
| S.K.Jain | 01 May 2000 08:57 |
| Subject: | Re: Why? |
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| From: | Steve Ruby (ste...@rubysolutions.com) |
| Date: | 04/28/2000 12:58:32 PM |
| List: | com.mysql.lists.win32 |
Craig Vincent wrote:
Why the Linux version of MySQL is free while you have to pay for the Windows version?
Actually the way I understand it if you compile a windows usable version for MySQL directly from the source (instead of the shareware binary) it isn't required to have a paid license for it. However I refuse to use M$ products in any of my online projects so I could be wrong and have never really investigated this so I could be wrong ...I'd suggest checking the archives on this one. A member of the development team could probably provide you with a better answer :)
Sincerely,
Craig Vincent
Since the unix source code version is not charged, if you could build a windows version from it you would probably not need to pay, you would have to build it as a cygwin application or do a LOT of porting, the source code (unix version) is definately not directly portable to win32.