License

The FromDual Enterprise Tools are licensed under a FromDual commercial license. The one exception is MyEnv which is licensed under GPLv2.

MyEnv

MyEnv is licensed under GPLv2.

FromDual Enterprise Tools

The FromDual Enterprise Tools are free of costs for non-commercial and non-profit use. If FromDual considers your usage as non-commercial or non-profit must be discussed. Just testing the functionality of the software for evaluation or learning purposes FromDual considers as non-commercial usage.

The following …

The MySQL Server itself

The differences between the MySQL Community Server and the MySQL Enterprise Server 5.7 are as follows as claimed by Oracle:

• The license of the MySQL Server itself.
• Only MySQL Enterprise Edition has the Enterprise plugins (Thread Pool, PAM, Audit, etc.)
• Certifications and Indemnification support for the MySQL Enterprise Server.
• The MySQL Community Server statically links against yaSSL and readline vs MySQL Enterprise Server against OpenSSL and libedit. This restriction seems to be …

Hi there! I am working on a project where I will most likely be using MyEnv (oh how I wish I had known of this the last time I set up mysqld_multi). I have added one feature already and have a few bug and performance fixes as well. My questions: Is there a license for MyEnv? If no, can you include one? Also, would you like me to pass my changes upstream? If so, how would be the best way. Mantis? Related to the licensing questions, would it be acceptable for redistribution with my changes? (eg. a public …

The following summary shows my personal understanding of MySQL 5.1 licenses, packages and products. It does not necessarily reflect 100% the way MySQL understands it. But after all the discussions I hope it is as close as possible to the reality:

MySQL Embedded Database Server

(Download → OEM Software)

Classic  (OEM license, -MEM -InnoDB)
Pro      (= Classic +InnoDB)
Advanced (= Pro +Partitioning)

MySQL Community Sever

(Download → Download)

Community (GPL, -NDB)

MySQL Enterprise Server

(Download → …

What is MyEnv?

MyEnv is a tool to run several MySQL or MariaDB database instances on ONE host. You can even run multiple database instances with different binary versions. We call this multi-instance set-ups.

With MyEnv a multi-instance set-up is more comfortable to handle than with mysqld_multi (old) or Systemd services (new) and it provides more useful functionality.

Using MyEnv does not need the use of the root user to operate MySQL and MariaDB database instances. Thus it is appropriate for classical …