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Is MySQL Planning a Change of Tune?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the license-switcheroo dept.

Iggy writes "After reading the article on 'The MySQL License Question' by Timothy R. Butler at Open for Business I just have to wonder, is this company's wording on the MySQL site indicating the company is backing away from Free Software, specifically, the GPL? Great reading and certainly thought provoking."

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  1. No, they're just confused by the legalese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like a lot of us are. Their interpretation is a bit off and I'm sure they'll correct it.

  2. Re:First Useful Post by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Consistency in a database is important too, whatever they choose I'll stick with Postgresql.

  3. It's MySQL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    not YourSQL.

    If they wanted you to own it, they would have named it that way.

    1. Re:It's MySQL by ejaw5 · · Score: 4, Funny

      This SQL is YourSQL
      This SQL is MySQL

      MySQL's changin' Licenses
      YourSQL's a G P L

      This SQL was made for you and me.

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      $cat /dev/random > Sig
    2. Re:It's MySQL by Tokerat · · Score: 2, Funny


      Well, sounds better than NotTheirSQL.

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      CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
  4. I guess this would make it... by deathcloset · · Score: 5, Funny

    TheirSQL

    *snicker snicker*

  5. Re:We will just fork it by VirexEye · · Score: 5, Funny

    The classic "farewell and fork you!"

  6. Re:Brings to mind a question.... by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'll give you my reading, because the other followup didn't catch all your questions:
    Thanks, because right now Open for Business' server should be renamed Closed for Business (slashdotted).
  7. Re:Who the hell is we? by mumblestheclown · · Score: 4, Funny
    Shhh! You're exposing the real cracks in the OSS model!

    Commercial Software

    a few guys then
    a few products then
    early success then
    money! then
    more guys then
    a few more products then
    more money!
    then more products (some good some bad) then
    more money! then
    more guys then..

    OSS:

    a few guys then
    a few products then
    early success then
    fame and glory for a few guys then
    more guys then
    a few more products then
    some fame for more guys then
    maybe some people will join here and there then
    a few bug fixes and patches then
    not really any fame for the new guys then
    people just stop caring because..
    it suddenly dawns the german dork who spent 3 months in his basement writing a slighly faster screen refresh algorithm for some OSS spreadsheet program that has 1% market and that is pretty much only due to some for-profit entity working to the letter but not the spirit of the GPL that a) deep down, nobody gives a damn about where their spreadsheet screen refresh algoritm comes from and b) that there is an outside, and that even chasing girls unsuccessfully is better than working for redhat/ibm/whatever without getting paid.

  8. Re:Good for them... by Inthewire · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...am I on crack?

    No idea.
    Got modpoints?

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    Writers imply. Readers infer.