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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. Web hosting by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MySQL is more scalable than SQLite and available from more shared web hosting providers than PostgreSQL. In many cases, a web hosting provider such as Go Daddy will make MySQL available to shared hosting customers but require an upgrade to a virtual dedicated server (and its memory-hogging Java-based administration tool) in order to use PostgreSQL.

  2. Re:It's Monty again, having his cake and eating it by x2A · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "then it would be trivial for anyone to circumvent the GPL and it would loose all it's meaning"

    Just like how the word 'lose' loses it's meaning when spelt 'loose'? ;-)

    (sorry couldn't resist)

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