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[Greg Freemyer]

2008/1/18 Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com>:
> what if the current core team plus the user base move towards the non_GPL
> version?

First, I don't think Sun bought MySQL to convert the MySQL license to
a commercial one.  It would not make sense.  If they did that, I would
expect someone (Google?) to fork the current GPL code and go forward
with it without Sun's involvement.

Back to your question:
If the current GPL version has the features/stability you need, then
it is GPL forever.

If you need enhancements/changes and those are only released with a
non-GPL license, then you have to live with the non-GPL license.  ie.
License changes are not retroactive, once a version of source code is
released GPL, that specific release of source code is GPL forever.

Greg
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