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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. Re:Not the only project to work this way. by jedidiah · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > What IS the problem however, is the fact that the GPL is a complex legal document

    Nonsense. As legal documents go, it's ridiculously simple. The only time the question of it's "complexity" come up is when people want to either bash it or violate it.

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