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MySQL's Influence On the GPL

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the throwing-your-weight-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ex-MySQL'er Brian Aker goes into the history of MySQL and the GPL. His point is that MySQL used the GPL in an over-reaching manner; and now that MySQL is gone as an entity, and the campaigns are over, that the GPL may return to an accurate definition."

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  1. MySQL's Influence on the GPL? by jupo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well the GPL used to be much longer, but was somehow mysteriously truncated.

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  2. FIFY by MrEricSir · · Score: 2, Funny

    DELETE FROM comments WHERE title="MySQL sucks";

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  3. Re:If MySQL over-reached with the GPL, tell the FS by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...or have I just been whooshed?

    No, you have performed the "Reverse Whoosh".

    I give you an 8.6

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