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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:If MySQL over-reached with the GPL, tell the FS by hardburn · · Score: 1, Troll

    Protocols cannot be copyrighted and therefore cannot fall under the GPL.

    [citation needed]

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  2. Certainly not off topic by einhverfr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure, MySQL sucks. MySQL sucks technically. The licensing sucks. The whole thing stinks.

    However, if you read the story (a lot to ask of Slashdot readers, I know), you would realize that this was about folks discussing the negative influence of MySQL on the whole FOSS industry. Moreover it is about Oracle's purchase possibly ending that era.

    Oracle may be a very menacing, evil corporation, but they might have done us all a favor now.

    (Honestly, PostgreSQL is a much better RDBMS all around. So is Firebird. Heck SQLite is better for many applications than MySQL.)

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