While MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the MySQL server and the MySQL manual, we wish to recognize those who have made contributions of one kind or another to the MySQL distribution. Contributors are listed here, in somewhat random order:
The initial port to Win32/NT.
For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic record format.
Win32 port with Borland compiler. mysqlshutdown.exe and mysqlwatch.exe
For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the predecessor of MySQL AB, we started with mSQL, but found that it couldn't satisfy our purposes so instead we wrote an SQL interface to our application builder Unireg. mysqladmin and mysql client are programs that were largely influenced by their mSQL counterparts. We have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a superset of mSQL. Many of the API's ideas are borrowed from mSQL to make it easy to port free mSQL programs to the MySQL API. The MySQL software doesn't contain any code from mSQL. Two files in the distribution (client/insert_test.c and client/select_test.c) are based on the corresponding (non-copyrighted) files in the mSQL distribution, but are modified as examples showing the changes necessary to convert code from mSQL to MySQL Server. (mSQL is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)
For helping us acquire http://www.mysql.com/.
For setting up qmail to handle the MySQL mailing list and for the incredible help we got in managing the MySQL mailing lists.
mysqldump (previously msqldump, but ported and enhanced by Monty).
For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.
Author of mysqlhotcopy.
Sorting for Slovenian language.
The _MB character set macros and the ujis and sjis character sets.
Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT, and answering on the MySQL mailing list.
mysqlaccess, a program to show the access rights for a user.
For one of the early JDBC drivers.
Further development of one of the early JDBC drivers and other MySQL-related Java tools.
For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.
For xmysql, a graphical X client for MySQL Server.
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux.
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha.
For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and SPARC.
For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21.
Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.
Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.
A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.
Czech sorting order.
FROM_UNIXTIME() time formatting, ENCRYPT() functions, and bison advisor. Active mailing list member.
Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to DBI/DBD. Have been of great help with crash-me and running benchmarks. Some new date functions. The mysql_setpermission script.
User-defined functions (UDFs); CREATE FUNCTION and DROP FUNCTION.
The AGGREGATE extension to UDF functions.
Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.
The libmysql.dll library.
Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administering MySQL Servers.
Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.
Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.
For making mysqlaccess more secure.
http://www.pspl.co.in/konark/. Help with the Win64 port of the MySQL server.
Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers support.
Emulation of pthread_mutex() for OS/2.
Extended MERGE tables to handle INSERTS. Active member on the MySQL mailing lists.
Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs (especially in the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).
Maintaining the Mac OS X packages and providing invaluable feedback on how to create Mac OS X PKGs.
Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port.
Lots of people were involved in various ways summer students, master thesis students, employees. In total more than 100 people so too many to mention here. Notable name is Ataullah Dabaghi who up until 1999 contributed around a third of the code base. A special thanks also to developers of the AXE system which provided much of the architecturial foundations for NDB Cluster with blocks, signals and crash tracing functionality. Also credit should be given to those who believed in the ideas enough to allocate of their budgets for its development from 1992 to present time.
Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar Haneke, mailto:jehamby@@lightside, mailto:psmith@@BayNetworks.com, mailto:duane@@connect.com.au, Ted Deppner mailto:ted@@psyber.com, Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyvatti.
And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.
A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the MySQL mailing lists:
Irix setup.
Benchmark questions.
DBD::mysql questions.
SCO-related questions.
xmysql-related questions and basic installation questions.
Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general questions.
General questions.
Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other things that might need some work.
Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.
Not yet specified, but is flexible and can handle Linux and maybe HP-UX. Will try to get user to use mysqlbug.
Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either .rpm files or compiling from source.
Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.
ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.
DBD, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.