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MySQL Ends Enterprise Server Source Tarballs

Posted by Zonk on from the new-tactic-in-open-sorcery dept.

vboulytchev writes "The folks at MySQL has quietly announced that it will no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball. It's been about a year since the split between the paid and free versions of the database project. The Enterprise Server code is still under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and as a result MySQL appears to be making it harder for non-customers to access the source code. 'One of the things that many users worry about is whether they're getting an inferior version of MySQL by using the Community version. Urlocker says that MySQL "wants to make sure the Community version is rock solid," but admitted that the company has introduced features into the Community edition of the software that "[weren't] as robust as we thought, and created some instabilities." Because of that, the company is revising its policies about when features go into the Community releases.'" Update: 08/10 04:56 GMT by CN :While it is slightly harder to get, the source isn't closed by any means, so I updated the title to reflect that.

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  1. Rock solid... Far from it unfortunately... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    MySQL versions 5.0.38 to 5.0.45 have had such major bugs that they have rendered themselves useless for a huge range of applications. Applications that use dates, or ones that expect the database to *NOT* insert random NULL values in a group by query.

    I mean, even the most basic test suite would have easily caught these.

    Here are just a few of the major ones:
    Bug #28336
    Bug #28936

  2. Re:Cha-Ching by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Informative

    They are planning an IPO.

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  3. Re:Wait a second.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, those damn MySQL idiots are acting just like this crazy Emacs hippie back in the 80s... what was his name... Richard Stallman I think. Anyway, the greedy bugger only distributed the source to people who bought the software! Even though it was GPL'd! And the FSF did nothing!

  4. Re:Say what? by Omnifarious · · Score: 5, Informative

    The title does not accurately reflect the summary or the real state of affairs. It is sensationalist in the extreme.

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  5. not quite by infonography · · Score: 5, Informative

    The issue isn't that they are keeping what they made. They didn't make it all since they used stuff others had contributed under a certain condition. That being Open Source. The open source model is that you let others help you build the software. To close the source they would have to comb back through the contributions of other people over the years and take out all OS code that is what they didn't pay for in-house. Otherwise they would have to rewrite a whole new system from scratch and walk away from the MySQL code base as it stands.

    It's like getting divorced and your ex gets only the second floor and the garage.

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