Code that Microsoft made available under a public license earlier this year will be used in the next production release of open source database MySQL. The Microsoft source code will be used in version 4.1 of MySQL, which is due for final release in two weeks. Microsoft made the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset available under an open source licence in April 2004. The toolset is used by companies that develop applications for the Windows environment to build a Windows installation package. David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL, said on Monday that the code has been used by MySQL developers to generate binary install files for the Windows environment. The code is not used for the MySQL database itself but for the administration tool which connects to the database.
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