Google provides open source MySQL

The well-known open source database software company MySQL AB and Google are close to fulfilling an agreement that can combine powerful functions created by this huge search engine, applied to search. Save an open source code base in future database versions.

Accordingly, Google has released a common source channel with many optional functions designed to improve the performance and accuracy of search engines. That additional search function of http://code.google.com source code search engine is released through the permission of the General Licensing Committee (GPL) of the Open Software Foundation (FSF).

There is a source saying that Google signed a License Distribution Agreement (CLA), a key legal document required by MySQL to create a mechanism for receiving external code or created and introduced by programmers. This source code database has so far been used by more than 11 million servers worldwide.

Google is believed to be the largest source of MySQL user databases on the planet with thousands of MySQL servers running in data centers around the world.

The source code for MySQL 4.0 continues to be provided by Google in parallel with the renowned version of MySQL 5.0 released a year and a half ago. These two groups of code are arranged separately so as not to confuse its inherent functions. In the long run, version 5.1 will be released later this year and version 6.0 will be released in 2008.

Vu Anh Tu