MySQL's Influence On the GPL

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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Re:If MySQL over-reached with the GPL, tell the FS

[hardburn]

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

[citation needed]