From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 13:14:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25836 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:14:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25706 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA18822; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:11:49 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199809022011.IAA18822@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: The Hermit Hacker Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:11:48 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Apache and databases Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <35ED92A7.2FD591D1@ibm.net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 Sep 98, at 15:01, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, David Chamberlain wrote: > > > OK, so back to the original question. How do I do it? > > > > I saw a product called MySQL, which looks pretty good. I can probably > > figure out how to install that and make it work from the instructions. > > I'm biased...MySQL has a commercial-use license, so for someone > that is worried about buying more hardware, you'll probably want to avoid > using MySQL. Check out PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org), which > falls under Berkeley license and is free for use, period. No "unless you > use it for this, or this or this"... Why did you mention the license in conjunction with "buying more hardware"? I'm confused. I understood that MySQL was free unless you were distributing a commercial product. In effect, if you are using it inhouse or giving away your product, there is no fee to be paid. Perhaps I missed the original poster's intentions. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message