7:65 $ˆl–ßi~”ªC]Šq@·pNÜ jbÑ¿Ì …o¾ÊÉ?÷Licensing Information User Manual MySQL 8.0.46 Community __________________________________________________________________ Introduction This License Information User Manual contains Oracle's product license and other licensing information, including licensing information for third-party software which may be included in this distribution of MySQL 8.0.46 Community. Last updated: February 2026 Licensing Information This release of MySQL 8.0.46 Community is brought to you by the MySQL team at Oracle. This software is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), as set forth below, with the following additional permissions: This distribution of MySQL 8.0.46 Community is designed to work with certain software (including but not limited to OpenSSL) that is licensed under separate terms, as designated in a particular file or component or in the license documentation. Without limiting your rights under the GPLv2, the authors of MySQL hereby grant you an additional permission to link the program and your derivative works with the separately licensed software that they have either included with the program or referenced in the documentation. This distribution includes the MySQL C API client library (libmysqlclient) otherwise known as MySQL Connector/C. Without limiting the foregoing grant of rights under the GPLv2 and additional permission as to separately licensed software, this Connector is also subject to the Universal FOSS Exception, version 1.0, a copy of which is reproduced below and can also be found along with its FAQ at http://oss.oracle.com/licenses/universal-foss-exception. Copyright (c) 1997, 2026, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Election of GPLv2 For the avoidance of doubt, except that if any license choice other than GPL or LGPL is available it will apply instead, Oracle elects to use only the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) at this time for any software where a choice of GPL license versions is made available with the language indicating that GPLv2 or any later version may be used, or where a choice of which version of the GPL is applied is otherwise unspecified. GNU General Public License Version 2.0, June 1991 The following applies to all products licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0: You may not use the identified files except in compliance with the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0 (the "License.") You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt. A copy of the license is also reproduced below. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. ====================================================================== ====================================================================== GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too. When we speak of free software, we are referrin