Database MySQL

MySQL is a software SQL database management system (English: database management system) or the DBMS is multithread, multi-user, with about 6 million installations worldwide. MySQL AB makes MySQL available as free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL), but they are also sold under a commercial license for those cases where their use is incompatible with the GPL.

Not the same with projects such as Apache, where software is developed by the general community, and the copyright for the source code are owned by their respective authors, MySQL is owned and sponsored by a Swedish commercial company MySQL AB, which holds the copyright on all code almost source. The two Swedes and one Finnish man who founded MySQL AB is: David Axmark, Allan Larsson, and Michael "Monty" Widenius.

source:http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL

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