[ale] $1B for MySQL !!!

[Jeff Lightner]

Picky picky...

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
David Tomaschik
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:18 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] $1B for MySQL !!!

I think you meant SSH is commercial, but OpenSSH lives on in OSS.

:)

David

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Right.
>
> Sun has actually been moving towards OSS - not away from it.
> Supposedly they're even looking into seeing if they can make
OpenSolaris
> GPL (or GPL2) due to resistance to their own OSS license.   (This they
> say is difficult to do because of past proprietary things that they
> don't actually "own" so can't completely give away.)
>
> Forking projects has been done many times.   Iceweasel for example was
> created just to get rid of some of the logo requirements Mozilla had
for
> Firefox as I understand it.  OpenSSH is commercial but ssh still lives
> on in OSS.   
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Greg
> Freemyer
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:57 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] $1B for MySQL !!!
>
> 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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