| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
| Cc: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL |
| Date: | 2003-11-11 22:12:10 |
| Message-ID: | 200311112212.hABMCAb09488@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hmmm ....
>
> > True, but that doesn't take away from Joshua's point at all. He is
> > accurate that MySQL is GPL, and it would live on. Their interested
> > install base is large enough to establish a new developer community if
> > the MySQL company went belly up too.
>
> SO it would be more relevant to say that "it's a single-company project, which
> can and has introduced feature and licensing changes without consideration
> for the greater community." ?
Yes, they do dual-licensing, and can license future versions however
they want, including totally non-GPL. They just changed the client
license from LGPL to GPL.
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