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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. 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.