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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. Hoopla! by Enoxice · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good for them; I've never understood all the hoopla about licenses, anyway. FOSS has become way too rigid, IMO. What ever happened to "here's my software. here is (maybe) my source. don't sell this without my permission."? I mean, is it possible that the FOSS movement has gone too far in trying to protect free software?

    Anyway, back on topic, they just didn't want to be locked into a license that has yet to be finalized. I'm okay with that.

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    1. Re:Hoopla! by mungtor · · Score: -1, Troll

      It should be "here is my software and my source. Do what you wish." That provides opportunities for other people to use your code for something commercial, hire people, and support the economy over all. Just because it isn't your goal doesn't mean you should reserve the right to deny other people the opportunity.

      GPL'd software says "here is my software and my source. But, anything you derive from it has to meet my specific terms. I'm not interested in making money, and you can't do it either."

      If you want to release Free software, release under the BSD license. Otherwise you're stubbornly forcing an ideaology on people which most people don't seem to want to be part of (as the backlash over the GPLv3 seems to indicate).

  2. 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?

  3. We'll see how long he gets to keep his card by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    His pinko-commie card. If he wont' tow the line he is not long for this world. I see hairloss in his future. If the GPL party says to move to 3, he damn well better move to 3!

  4. 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.

  5. 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.