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by spudlyo 6004 days ago
You don't need to license the client library anymore now that the BSD licensed libdrizzle exists. It's a clean room implementation of the client library written by Eric Day at Sun and is compatible with MySQL server versions >= 4.1.

You also had the option of using the very old public domain licensed version of the client library, provided you could find it. I believe that RedHat shipped it at one point.
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rbanffy 6004 days ago
BTW, Drizzle appears to be a very good database server. I am currently evaluating it under various workloads and it seems happy.

It hasn't shown any advantage over MySQL in the tests done so far beyond not belonging to Oracle.

And for new projects, I do prefer PostgreSQL.

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