Re: MySQL Gemini code

From: ncm(at)zembu(dot)com (Nathan Myers)
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL Gemini code
Date: 2001-07-18 20:25:36
Message-ID: 20010718132536.N731@store.zembu.com
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:35:58AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> And this press release
>
> http://www.nusphere.com/releases/071601.htm
>
> also explains why they had to do it this way.

They were always free to fork, but doing it the way they did --
violating MySQL AB's license -- they shot the dog.

The lesson? Ask somebody competent, first, before you bet your
company playing license games.

Nathan Myers
ncm(at)zembu(dot)com

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