MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 6, 2008 @09:40AM from the good-on-them dept.

krow writes "I am very happy to be announcing that MySQL will be forgoing close sourcing portions of the MySQL Server. Kaj has the official statement in his blog. No portion of the server will be closed source including backup, encryption, or any storage engines we ship. To quote Kaj 'The encryption and compression backup features will be open source.' This is a change from what was previously posted here on Slashdot. I've posted some additional thoughts on my own blog concerning how we keep open source from becoming crippleware. Word has it that we will also have a panel at this year's OSCON discussing this topic. Contrary to the previous Slashdot discussion, this shows Sun's continued commitment to Open Source."

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Re:Good day for all by Jherek+Carnelian · 2008-05-06 09:57 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm glad that Sun was able to convince the MySQL staff to not close source any of the codebase. Totally! Don't you hate it when you buy a company and they won't do what you tell them?
Good thing Sun was able to convince Sun to stick to Sun's official policy.