| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Cornelia Boenigk <poppcorn(at)cornelia-boenigk(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and |
| Date: | 2006-02-12 20:36:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20060212163501.I6751@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Curiously, the risk for MySQL here is not that Oracle becomes an Open
> Source company, but that they license InnoDB and Berkeley DB under open
> source licenses only (which would be a heavy blow to other Sleepycat
> customers as well, by the way).
Now *that* is a possibility that I hadn't thought of ... so you are
suggesting that Oracle's direction might be to remove the Dual-License in
favor of a purely OSS license for those technologies? So, for instance,
InnoDB would still be available, but *only* to those that haven't licensed
a copy of MySQL? I like that one ... :)
>
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