Re: Ammunition

God, their licensing sounds more horrific then the old Oracle licensing
I've had described to me :(

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> MySQL makes money by selling non-GPL licenses to people who want non-GPL
> versions of MySQL.
>
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> Christopher Browne wrote:
> > scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker) writes:
> > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > >> > Zero. MySQL has full license to the source code, so they can't have
> > >> > others contributing from outside.
> > >>
> > >> I spoke to Zak and Georg Richter about this at a conference. They
> > >> said they receive some contributions, but that MySQL AB requires
> > >> the contributor to sign over copyright to MySQL AB.
> > >
> > > But, I thought it was GPLd?
> >
> > MySQL (the software) is _available under the GPL_.
> >
> > But MySQL AB, the company, is rather jealous to guard their
> > intellectual property, which they release under multiple licenses only
> > one of which is the GPL.
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