| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Graham Leggett <minfrin(at)sharp(dot)fm>, David Boreham <david_list(at)boreham(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why facebook used mysql ? |
| Date: | 2010-11-09 20:24:32 |
| Message-ID: | 15640.1289334272@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Graham Leggett <minfrin(at)sharp(dot)fm> wrote:
>> Ownership of the copyright is owned by whoever made the contribution, and
>> any competent version control system will give you the list of contributions
>> (and therefore contributors). If a contribution was made in terms of the
>> GPL, then permission would need to be sought from everyone who has made a
>> contribution before it could be released under a different license.
> Contributed code to MySQL AB MUST be assigned copyright to MySQL AB.
Yeah, MySQL AB and successors have been very careful to ensure that they
have air-tight ownership of that code. I've been asked for copyright
assignments for four-line patches :-(
regards, tom lane
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