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I didn't feel like signing up to comment on the article, but he's wrong about the license.

It is rare that you are linking the database code with your code. Therefore, the difference between BSD and GPL code will rarely, if ever, matter for a database user.

If you think you'll have to modify the code of the database, the license would matter.

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You still need some client libraries to connect to the database: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2038881/gpl-and-libmysqlc...

Yes, and you you absolutely have to ship proprietary software that connects to MySQL you can use libdrizzle[0] which is a BSD licensed cleanroom implementation of the client library. Alternately you can go dig up the old original public domain version of the client library that existed before Monty got the clever idea of using fear of the GPL to sell more MySQL client licenses.

The license issue is FUD.

[0]: https://launchpad.net/libdrizzle

It is not FUD. libdrizzle as you mentioned still lacking of MySQL 5.6 support. (libdrizzle 5.1 stable version was released two years ago)

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