Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Jan Wieck wrote:
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>> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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>>>> ... on projects.postgresql.org, or similar. They really aren't
>>>> doing any good in /contrib.
>>>>
>>>> I've already set up a category "conversion tools" on pgFoundry, and
>>>> my idea was one project per target system.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I reckon that by far the best way to do a mysql2pgsql converter is to
>>> just modify mysqldump C source code to output in postgresql format!
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>>
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>> ... and contribute it to MySQL :-)
>>
>
> But you would have to assign the copyright to them ....
>
> If someone is going to make money from my code, I prefer it to be me, or
> at least that everyone has a chance to do so rather than just one company.

You still don't understand their business model. You publish the code
under GPL for free, and offer it under something else for sale for
everyone who's actually stupid enough to use it.

Jan

>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>
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