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MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3

Posted by kdawson on from the love-that-v2 dept.

munchola writes "MySQL has quietly changed the license it uses for its database to avoid being forced to move to the forthcoming GPLv3. CBRonline is reporting that Kaj Arno, MySQL VP of community relations, revealed the license change on his blog, noting it was made 'in order to make it an option, not an obligation for the company to move to GPLv3.'"

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  1. Jumping the Shark by Snap+E+Tom · · Score: 0, Troll

    And they recently stopped putting the newest versions of MySQL on the website community download page, too. (5.0.27 on the DL page versus 5.0.30 on the FTP server) Time to fork?

  2. Re:Good for them. by Undertaker43017 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I have severe problems with the GPLv3 as-is; I feel they're trying to stuff a brand of morality and a system of thought down the throats of programmers who licensed their creations in good faith under the GPLv2"

    The GPL and the Communist Software Foundation have always been about pushing their "brand of morality and system of thought", GPLv3 is just adapting to a changing world.

    If you truly want to release free software use a BSD or similar license.

  3. uh, no. by everphilski · · Score: 1, Troll

    RMS seems to think you can enumerate freedoms ... he has the zero'th, first, second and third freedoms. www.gnu.org right there on the front page. Three strikes (plus a zero'th) and you, my trollish friend, are out.