| From: | felix(at)crowfix(dot)com |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| Date: | 2005-10-08 21:11:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20051008211154.GA20723@crowfix.com |
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On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> What it comes down to is this. MySQL is dual licensed. You can use
> the GPL version, or the commercial version. In order to sell the
> commercially licensed version, MySQL must have the rights to all the
> code in their base. So, in order for MySQL to sell a commercail
> version of MySQL with innodb support, they have to pay innobase a
> bit to include it, or rip it out.
I don't understand. If both MySQL and Innodb are GPL licensed,
commercial or not should make no difference, and they can add all the
GPL changes they want o the last Innodb GPL release.
What am I missing?
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