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ISP MySQL Services
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs) often host MySQL servers for their
customers.  With the GPL license this does not require a license.

On the other hand, we do encourage people to use ISPs that have MySQL
support, as this will give them the confidence that if they have some
problem with their MySQL installation, their ISP will be able to solve
the problem for them (in some cases with the help from the MySQL
development team).

All ISPs that want to keep themselves up-to-date should subscribe to
our `announce' mailing list so that they can be aware of fatal issues
that may be relevant for their MySQL installations.

Note that if the ISP doesn't have a license for MySQL, it should give
its customers at least read access to the source of the MySQL
installation so that its customer can verify that it is patched
correctly.