[CS-FSLUG] OfB.biz: The MySQL License Question

[Timothy R. Butler]

Hi Jukka,
	That's coming from burstnet.com, the ad server of one of my ad network 
affiliates, Burst! Media. I'm not sure why it would be popping that up 
though. It is rather odd.

	Hmm...
	
	-Tim


On Aug 14, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Jukka Y wrote:

> On Friday 13 August 2004 22:15, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
>> MySQL AB's namesake database is a package that many would list among
>> the crown jewels of Free Software. The Swedish company's database has
>> been deployed over five million times by the company's own count. Yet,
>> some, quite legitimately wondered if certain wording on the MySQL site
>> might indicate the company is backing away from Free Software, and,
>> more specifically, the GNU General Public License. OfB wanted to know
>> if this was an actual concern or simply a misunderstanding, so Timothy
>> R. Butler contacted MySQL AB to find out more information.
>>
>> 	http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=325
>>
> There is something in the link that Konqueror cannot handle. Konqueror 
> opens
> the right address, but at the same pops up an dialog asking if I want 
> to
> open/save a document called "RETURN-CODE"? I saved and opened it in 
> editor
> but the document was empty. I opened link also in Mozilla, Firefox, 
> Galeon
> and Opera, but only Konquror seems be aware of this "extra" document. 
> Do you
> have any idea what it is and why/where it comes from?
>
> Konquerors dialog looked like this:
> http://www.ylonen.info/message.png (15,2 kb)
>
> Blessings,
> Jukka
>
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