G.2 MySQL FLOSS License Exception
=================================

The MySQL AB Exception for Free/Libre and Open Source Software-only
Applications Using MySQL Client Libraries (the `FLOSS Exception').

_Version 0.5, 30 August 2006_

*Exception Intent*

We want specified Free/Libre and Open Source Software ("FLOSS")
applications to be able to use specified GPL-licensed MySQL client
libraries (the "Program") despite the fact that not all FLOSS licenses
are compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License (the
"GPL").

*Legal Terms and Conditions*

As a special exception to the terms and conditions of version 2.0 of
the GPL:

  1. You are free to distribute a Derivative Work that is formed
     entirely from the Program and one or more works (each, a `FLOSS
     Work') licensed under one or more of the licenses listed below in
     section 1, as long as:

       1. You obey the GPL in all respects for the Program and the
          Derivative Work, except for identifiable sections of the
          Derivative Work which are not derived from the Program, and
          which can reasonably be considered independent and separate
          works in themselves,

       2. all identifiable sections of the Derivative Work which are
          not derived from the Program, and which can reasonably be
          considered independent and separate works in themselves,

            1. are distributed subject to one of the FLOSS licenses
               listed below, and

            2. the object code or executable form of those sections are
               accompanied by the complete corresponding
               machine-readable source code for those sections on the
               same medium and under the same FLOSS license as the
               corresponding object code or executable forms of those
               sections, and

       3. any works which are aggregated with the Program or with a
          Derivative Work on a volume of a storage or distribution
          medium in accordance with the GPL, can reasonably be
          considered independent and separate works in themselves which
          are not derivatives of either the Program, a Derivative Work
          or a FLOSS Work.

     If the above conditions are not met, then the Program may only be
     copied, modified, distributed or used under the terms and
     conditions of the GPL or another valid licensing option from MySQL
     AB.

  2. *FLOSS License List*

     *License name*                           *Version(s)/Copyright Date*
     Academic Free License                    2.0
     Apache Software License                  1.0/1.1/2.0
     Apple Public Source License              2.0
     Artistic license                         From Perl 5.8.0
     BSD license                              "July 22 1999"
     Common Public License                    1.0
     GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public   2.0/2.1
     License (LGPL)                           
     Jabber Open Source License               1.0
     MIT license                              --
     Mozilla Public License (MPL)             1.0/1.1
     Open Software License                    2.0
     OpenSSL license (with original SSLeay    "2003" ("1998")
     license)                                 
     PHP License                              3.0
     Python license (CNRI Python License)     --
     Python Software Foundation License       2.1.1
     Sleepycat License                        "1999"
     University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source  --
     License                                  
     W3C License                              "2001"
     X11 License                              "2001"
     Zlib/libpng License                      --
     Zope Public License                      2.0

     Due to the many variants of some of the above licenses, we require
     that any version follow the 2003 version of the Free Software
     Foundation's Free Software Definition
     (`http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html') or version 1.9 of
     the Open Source Definition by the Open Source Initiative
     (`http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php').

  3. Definitions

       1. Terms used, but not defined, herein shall have the meaning
          provided in the GPL.

       2. Derivative Work means a derivative work under copyright law.

  4. *Applicability*: This FLOSS Exception applies to all Programs that
     contain a notice placed by MySQL AB saying that the Program may be
     distributed under the terms of this FLOSS Exception. If you create
     or distribute a work which is a Derivative Work of both the
     Program and any other work licensed under the GPL, then this FLOSS
     Exception is not available for that work; thus, you must remove
     the FLOSS Exception notice from that work and comply with the GPL
     in all respects, including by retaining all GPL notices. You may
     choose to redistribute a copy of the Program exclusively under the
     terms of the GPL by removing the FLOSS Exception notice from that
     copy of the Program, provided that the copy has never been
     modified by you or any third party.

*Appendix A. Qualified Libraries and Packages*

The following is a non-exhaustive list of libraries and packages which
are covered by the FLOSS License Exception. Please note that this
appendix is provided merely as an additional service to specific FLOSS
projects wishing to simplify licensing information for their users.
Compliance with one of the licenses noted under the `FLOSS license
list' section remains a prerequisite.

*Package Name*                              *Qualifying License and
                                            Version*
Apache Portable Runtime (APR)               Apache Software License 2.0

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Appendix H Credits
******************

* Menu:

* developers::                   Developers at MySQL AB
* contributors::                 Contributors to MySQL
* documenters-translators::      Documenters and translators
* used-libraries::               Libraries used by and included with MySQL
* packages::                     Packages that support MySQL
* tools-used-to-create-mysql::   Tools that were used to create MySQL
* supporters::                   Supporters of MySQL

This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters that
have helped to make MySQL what it is today.

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H.1 Developers at MySQL AB
==========================

These are the developers that are or have been employed by MySQL AB to
work on the `MySQL' database software, roughly in the order they
started to work with us. Following each developer is a small list of
the tasks that the developer is responsible for, or the accomplishments
they have made. All developers are involved in support.

   * Michael (Monty) Widenius

        * Lead developer and main author of the MySQL server (`mysqld').

        * New functions for the string library.

        * Most of the `mysys' library.

        * The `ISAM' and `MyISAM' libraries (B-tree index file handlers
          with index compression and different record formats).

        * The `HEAP' library. A memory table system with our superior
          full dynamic hashing. In use since 1981 and published around
          1984.

        * The `replace' program (take a look at it, it's *COOL*!).

        * Connector/ODBC (MyODBC), the ODBC driver for Windows.

        * Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL
          Server. And also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with
          many utilities.

        * Porting of `mSQL' tools like `msqlperl', `DBD'/`DBI', and
          `DB2mysql'.

        * Most of `crash-me' and the foundation for the MySQL
          benchmarks.

   * David Axmark

        * Initial main writer of the *Reference Manual*, including
          enhancements to `texi2html'.

        * Automatic Web site updating from the manual.

        * Initial Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool support.

        * Licensing.

        * Parts of all the text files. (Nowadays only the `README' is
          left. The rest ended up in the manual.)

        * Lots of testing of new features.

        * Our in-house Free Software legal expert.

        * Mailing list maintainer (who never has the time to do it
          right...).

        * Our original portability code (now more than 10 years old).
          Nowadays only some parts of `mysys' are left.

        * Someone for Monty to call in the middle of the night when he
          just got that new feature to work.

        * Chief "Open Sourcerer" (MySQL community relations).

   * Jani Tolonen

        * `mysqlimport'

        * A lot of extensions to the command-line clients.

        * `PROCEDURE ANALYSE()'

   * Sinisa Milivojevic (now in support)

        * Compression (with `zlib') in the client/server protocol.

        * Perfect hashing for the lexical analyzer phase.

        * Multi-row `INSERT'

        * `mysqldump' -e option

        * `LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE'

        * `SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS' `SELECT' option

        * `--max-user-connections=...' option

        * `net_read' and `net_write_timeout'

        * `GRANT'/`REVOKE' and `SHOW GRANTS FOR'

        * New client/server protocol for 4.0

        * `UNION' in 4.0

        * Multiple-table `DELETE'/`UPDATE'

        * Subqueries in the `FROM' clause (4.1).

        * User resources management

        * Initial developer of the `MySQL++' C++ API and the `MySQLGUI'
          client.

   * Tonu Samuel (past developer)

        * VIO interface (the foundation for the encrypted client/server
          protocol).

        * MySQL Filesystem (a way to use MySQL databases as files and
          directories).

        * The `CASE' expression.

        * The `MD5()' and `COALESCE()' functions.

        * `RAID' support for `MyISAM' tables.

   * Sasha Pachev (past developer)

        * Initial implementation of replication (up to version 4.0).

        * `SHOW CREATE TABLE'.

        * `mysql-bench'

   * Matt Wagner

        * MySQL test suite.

        * Webmaster (until 2002).

   * Miguel Solorzano (now in support)

        * Win32 development and release builds.

        * Windows NT server code.

        * WinMySQLAdmin

   * Timothy Smith (now in development)

        * Dynamic character sets support.

        * configure, RPMs and other parts of the build system.

        * Initial developer of `libmysqld', the embedded server.

   * Sergei Golubchik

        * Full-text search.

        * Added keys to the `MERGE' library.

        * Precision math.

   * Jeremy Cole (past developer)

        * Proofreading and editing this fine manual.

        * `ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY ...'.

        * `UPDATE ... ORDER BY ...'.

        * `DELETE ... ORDER BY ...'.

   * Indrek Siitan

        * Designing/programming of our Web interface.

        * Author of our newsletter management system.

   * Jorge del Conde (past developer)

        * `MySQLCC' (`MySQL Control Center')

        * Win32 development

        * Initial implementation of the Web site portals.

   * Venu Anuganti (past developer)

        * MyODBC 3.51

        * New client/server protocol for 4.1 (for prepared statements).

   * Arjen Lentz (also handled community, 2004-2006; now works in
     Support)

        * Maintainer of the MySQL Reference Manual (2001-2004).

        * Preparing the O'Reilly printed edition of the manual (2002).

   * Alexander (Bar) Barkov, Alexey (Holyfoot) Botchkov, and Ramil
     Kalimullin

        * Spatial data (GIS) and R-Trees implementation for 4.1

        * Unicode and character sets for 4.1; documentation for same

   * Oleksandr (Sanja) Byelkin

        * Query cache in 4.0

        * Implementation of subqueries (4.1).

        * Implementation of views (5.0).

   * Aleksey (Walrus) Kishkin and Alexey (Ranger) Stroganov

        * Benchmarks design and analysis.

        * Maintenance of the MySQL test suite.

   * Zak Greant (past employee)

        * Open Source advocate, MySQL community relations.

   * Carsten Pedersen

        * The MySQL Certification program.

   * Lenz Grimmer

        * Production (build and release) engineering.

   * Peter Zaitsev

        * `SHA1()', `AES_ENCRYPT()' and `AES_DECRYPT()' functions.

        * Debugging, cleaning up various features.

   * Alexander (Salle) Keremidarski

        * Support.

        * Debugging.

   * Per-Erik Martin

        * Lead developer for stored procedures (5.0).

   * Jim Winstead

        * Former lead Web developer.

        * Improving server, fixing bugs.

   * Mark Matthews

        * Connector/J driver (Java).

   * Peter Gulutzan

        * SQL standards compliance.

        * Documentation of existing MySQL code/algorithms.

        * Character set documentation.

   * Guilhem Bichot

        * Replication, from `MySQL' version 4.0.

        * Fixed handling of exponents for `DECIMAL'.

        * Author of `mysql_tableinfo'.

        * Backup (in 5.1).

   * Antony T. Curtis

        * Porting of the MySQL Database software to OS/2.

   * Mikael Ronstrom

        * Much of the initial work on NDB Cluster until 2000.  Roughly
          half the code base at that time. Transaction protocol, node
          recovery, system restart and restart code and parts of the
          API functionality.

        * Lead Architect, developer, debugger of NDB Cluster 1994-2004

        * Lots of optimizations

   * Jonas Oreland

        * On-line Backup

        * The automatic test environment of MySQL Cluster

        * Portability Library for NDB Cluster

        * Lots of other things

   * Pekka Nouisiainen

        * Ordered index implementation of MySQL Cluster

        * BLOB support in MySQL Cluster

        * Charset support in MySQL Cluster

   * Martin Skold

        * Unique index implementation of MySQL Cluster

        * Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL

   * Magnus Svensson

        * The test framework for MySQL Cluster

        * Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL

   * Tomas Ulin

        * Lots of work on configuration changes for simple installation
          and use of MySQL Cluster

   * Konstantin Osipov

        * Prepared statements.

        * Cursors.

   * Dmitri Lenev

        * Time zone support.

        * Triggers (in 5.0).

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H.2 Contributors to MySQL
=========================

Although MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the `MySQL server' and the
`MySQL manual', we wish to recognize those who have made contributions
of one kind or another to the `MySQL distribution'. Contributors are
listed here, in somewhat random order:

   * Gianmassimo Vigazzola <qwerg@mbox.vol.it> or <qwerg@tin.it>

     The initial port to Win32/NT.

   * Per Eric Olsson

     For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the
     dynamic record format.

   * Irena Pancirov <irena@mail.yacc.it>

     Win32 port with Borland compiler.  `mysqlshutdown.exe' and
     `mysqlwatch.exe'

   * David J. Hughes

     For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the
     predecessor of MySQL AB, we started with `mSQL', but found that it
     couldn't satisfy our purposes so instead we wrote an SQL interface
     to our application builder Unireg. `mysqladmin' and `mysql' client
     are programs that were largely influenced by their `mSQL'
     counterparts. We have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL
     syntax a superset of `mSQL'. Many of the API's ideas are borrowed
     from `mSQL' to make it easy to port free `mSQL' programs to the
     MySQL API.  The MySQL software doesn't contain any code from
     `mSQL'. Two files in the distribution (`client/insert_test.c' and
     `client/select_test.c') are based on the corresponding
     (non-copyrighted) files in the `mSQL' distribution, but are
     modified as examples showing the changes necessary to convert code
     from `mSQL' to MySQL Server.  (`mSQL' is copyrighted David J.
     Hughes.)

   * Patrick Lynch

     For helping us acquire `http://www.mysql.com/'.

   * Fred Lindberg

     For setting up qmail to handle the MySQL mailing list and for the
     incredible help we got in managing the MySQL mailing lists.

   * Igor Romanenko <igor@frog.kiev.ua>

     `mysqldump' (previously `msqldump', but ported and enhanced by
     Monty).

   * Yuri Dario

     For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.

   * Tim Bunce

     Author of `mysqlhotcopy'.

   * Zarko Mocnik <zarko.mocnik@dem.si>

     Sorting for Slovenian language.

   * "TAMITO" <tommy@valley.ne.jp>

     The `_MB' character set macros and the ujis and sjis character
     sets.

   * Joshua Chamas <joshua@chamas.com>

     Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT,
     and answering on the MySQL mailing list.

   * Yves Carlier <Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be>

     `mysqlaccess', a program to show the access rights for a user.

   * Rhys Jones <rhys@wales.com> (And GWE Technologies Limited)

     For one of the early JDBC drivers.

   * Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU <X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk>

     Further development of one of the early JDBC drivers and other
     MySQL-related Java tools.

   * James Cooper <pixel@organic.com>

     For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.

   * Rick Mehalick <Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com>

     For `xmysql', a graphical X client for MySQL Server.

   * Doug Sisk <sisk@wix.com>

     For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux.

   * Diemand Alexander V. <axeld@vial.ethz.ch>

     For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha.

   * Antoni Pamies Olive <toni@readysoft.es>

     For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and
     SPARC.

   * Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>

     For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21.

   * David Sacerdote <davids@secnet.com>

     Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.

   * Wei-Jou Chen <jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw>

     Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.

   * Wei He <hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn>

     A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.

   * Jan Pazdziora <adelton@fi.muni.cz>

     Czech sorting order.

   * Zeev Suraski <bourbon@netvision.net.il>

     `FROM_UNIXTIME()' time formatting, `ENCRYPT()' functions, and
     `bison' advisor. Active mailing list member.

   * Luuk de Boer <luuk@wxs.nl>

     Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to `DBI'/`DBD'. Have
     been of great help with `crash-me' and running benchmarks. Some
     new date functions. The `mysql_setpermission' script.

   * Alexis Mikhailov <root@medinf.chuvashia.su>

     User-defined functions (UDFs); `CREATE FUNCTION' and `DROP
     FUNCTION'.

   * Andreas F. Bobak <bobak@relog.ch>

     The `AGGREGATE' extension to user-defined functions.

   * Ross Wakelin <R.Wakelin@march.co.uk>

     Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.

   * Jethro Wright III <jetman@li.net>

     The `libmysql.dll' library.

   * James Pereria <jpereira@iafrica.com>

     Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administering MySQL Servers.

   * Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>

     Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.

   * Martin Ramsch <m.ramsch@computer.org>

     Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.

   * Steve Harvey

     For making `mysqlaccess' more secure.

   * Konark IA-64 Centre of Persistent Systems Private Limited

     `http://www.pspl.co.in/konark/'. Help with the Win64 port of the
     MySQL server.

   * Albert Chin-A-Young.

     Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP
     wrappers support.

   * John Birrell

     Emulation of `pthread_mutex()' for OS/2.

   * Benjamin Pflugmann

     Extended `MERGE' tables to handle `INSERTS'. Active member on the
     MySQL mailing lists.

   * Jocelyn Fournier

     Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs (especially in
     the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).

   * Marc Liyanage

     Maintaining the Mac OS X packages and providing invaluable
     feedback on how to create Mac OS X PKGs.

   * Robert Rutherford

     Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port.

   * Previous developers of NDB Cluster

     Lots of people were involved in various ways summer students,
     master thesis students, employees. In total more than 100 people
     so too many to mention here. Notable name is Ataullah Dabaghi who
     up until 1999 contributed around a third of the code base. A
     special thanks also to developers of the AXE system which provided
     much of the architectural foundations for NDB Cluster with blocks,
     signals and crash tracing functionality. Also credit should be
     given to those who believed in the ideas enough to allocate of
     their budgets for its development from 1992 to present time.

Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson,
Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis,
Elmar Haneke, <jehamby@lightside>, <psmith@BayNetworks.com>,
<duane@connect.com.au>, Ted Deppner <ted@psyber.com>, Mike Simons,
Jaakko Hyvatti.

And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.

A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the MySQL
mailing lists:

   * Daniel Koch <dkoch@amcity.com>

     Irix setup.

   * Luuk de Boer <luuk@wxs.nl>

     Benchmark questions.

   * Tim Sailer <tps@users.buoy.com>

     `DBD::mysql' questions.

   * Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>

     SCO-related questions.

   * Richard Mehalick <RM186061@shellus.com>

     `xmysql'-related questions and basic installation questions.

   * Zeev Suraski <bourbon@netvision.net.il>

     Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related
     questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general
     questions.

   * Francesc Guasch <frankie@citel.upc.es>

     General questions.

   * Jonathan J Smith <jsmith@wtp.net>

     Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and
     other things that might need some work.

   * David Sklar <sklar@student.net>

     Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.

   * Alistair MacDonald <A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk>

     Is flexible and can handle Linux and perhaps HP-UX. Tries to get
     users to use `mysqlbug'.

   * John Lyon <jlyon@imag.net>

     Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either
     `.rpm' files or compiling from source.

   * Lorvid Ltd. <lorvid@WOLFENET.com>

     Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.

   * Patrick Sherrill <patrick@coconet.com>

     ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.

   * Randy Harmon <rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com>

     `DBD', Linux, some SQL syntax questions.

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H.3 Documenters and translators
===============================

The following people have helped us with writing the MySQL
documentation and translating the documentation or error messages in
MySQL.

   * Paul DuBois

     Ongoing help with making this manual correct and understandable.
     That includes rewriting Monty's and David's attempts at English
     into English as other people know it.

   * Kim Aldale

     Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English
     into English.

   * Michael J. Miller Jr.  <mke@terrapin.turbolift.com>

     For the first MySQL manual. And a lot of spelling/language fixes
     for the FAQ (that turned into the MySQL manual a long time ago).

   * Yan Cailin

     First translator of the MySQL Reference Manual into simplified
     Chinese in early 2000 on which the Big5 and HK coded
     (`http://mysql.hitstar.com/') versions were based. Personal home
     page at linuxdb.yeah.net (http://linuxdb.yeah.net).

   * Jay Flaherty <fty@mediapulse.com>

     Big parts of the Perl `DBI'/`DBD' section in the manual.

   * Paul Southworth <pauls@etext.org>, Ray Loyzaga <yar@cs.su.oz.au>

     Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.

   * Therrien Gilbert <gilbert@ican.net>, Jean-Marc Pouyot
     <jmp@scalaire.fr>

     French error messages.

   * Petr Snajdr, <snajdr@pvt.net>

     Czech error messages.

   * Jaroslaw Lewandowski <jotel@itnet.com.pl>

     Polish error messages.

   * Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz

     Spanish error messages.

   * Roy-Magne Mo <rmo@www.hivolda.no>

     Norwegian error messages and testing of MySQL 3.21.xx.

   * Timur I. Bakeyev <root@timur.tatarstan.ru>

     Russian error messages.

   * <brenno@dewinter.com> & Filippo Grassilli <phil@hyppo.com>

     Italian error messages.

   * Dirk Munzinger <dirk@trinity.saar.de>

     German error messages.

   * Billik Stefan <billik@sun.uniag.sk>

     Slovak error messages.

   * Stefan Saroiu <tzoompy@cs.washington.edu>

     Romanian error messages.

   * Peter Feher

     Hungarian error messages.

   * Roberto M. Serqueira

     Portuguese error messages.

   * Carsten H. Pedersen

     Danish error messages.

   * Arjen Lentz

     Dutch error messages, completing earlier partial translation (also
     work on consistency and spelling).

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H.4 Libraries used by and included with MySQL
=============================================

The following is a list of the creators of the libraries we have
included with the MySQL server source to make it easy to compile and
install MySQL. We are very thankfully to all individuals that have
created these and it has made our life much easier.

   * Fred Fish

     For his excellent C debugging and trace library. Monty has made a
     number of smaller improvements to the library (speed and
     additional options).

   * Richard A. O'Keefe

     For his public domain string library.

   * Henry Spencer

     For his regex library, used in `WHERE column REGEXP regexp'.

   * Chris Provenzano

     Portable user level pthreads. From the copyright: This product
     includes software developed by Chris Provenzano, the University of
     California, Berkeley, and contributors. We are currently using
     version 1_60_beta6 patched by Monty (see
     `mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql').

   * Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

     For the zlib library (used on MySQL on Windows).

   * Bjorn Benson

     For his safe_malloc (memory checker) package which is used in when
     you configure MySQL with `--debug'.

   * Free Software Foundation

     The `readline' library (used by the `mysql' command-line client).

   * The NetBSD foundation

     The `libedit' package (optionally used by the `mysql' command-line
     client).

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H.5 Packages that support MySQL
===============================

The following is a list of creators/maintainers of some of the most
important API/packages/applications that a lot of people use with MySQL.

We can't list every possible package here because the list would then
be way to hard to maintain. For other packages, please refer to the
software portal at `http://solutions.mysql.com/software/'.

   * Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes

     For the `DBD' (Perl) interface.

   * Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>

     For the Perl interface for MySQL Server.

   * Jochen Wiedmann <wiedmann@neckar-alb.de>

     For maintaining the Perl `DBD::mysql' module.

   * Eugene Chan <eugene@acenet.com.sg>

     For porting PHP for MySQL Server.

   * Georg Richter

     MySQL 4.1 testing and bug hunting. New PHP 5.0 `mysqli' extension
     (API) for use with MySQL 4.1 and up.

   * Giovanni Maruzzelli <maruzz@matrice.it>

     For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).

   * Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>

     The author of LinuxThreads (used by the MySQL Server on Linux).

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H.6 Tools that were used to create MySQL
========================================

The following is a list of some of the tools we have used to create
MySQL. We use this to express our thanks to those that has created them
as without these we could not have made MySQL what it is today.

   * Free Software Foundation

     From whom we got an excellent compiler (`gcc'), an excellent
     debugger (`gdb' and the `libc' library (from which we have borrowed
     `strto.c' to get some code working in Linux).

   * Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team

     For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at
     MySQL AB.

   * Julian Seward

     Author of `valgrind', an excellent memory checker tool that has
     helped us find a lot of otherwise hard to find bugs in MySQL.

   * Dorothea Lu"tkehaus and Andreas Zeller

     For `DDD' (The Data Display Debugger) which is an excellent
     graphical front end to `gdb').

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H.7 Supporters of MySQL
=======================

Although MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the `MySQL server' and the
`MySQL manual', we wish to recognize the following companies, which
helped us finance the development of the `MySQL server', such as by
paying us for developing a new feature or giving us hardware for
development of the `MySQL server'.

   * VA Linux / Andover.net

     Funded replication.

   * NuSphere

     Editing of the MySQL manual.

   * Stork Design studio

     The MySQL Web site in use between 1998-2000.

   * Intel

     Contributed to development on Windows and Linux platforms.

   * Compaq

     Contributed to Development on Linux/Alpha.

   * SWSoft

     Development on the embedded `mysqld' version.

   * FutureQuest

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