Re: More grist for the PostgreSQL vs MySQL mill

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: More grist for the PostgreSQL vs MySQL mill
Date: 2007-01-21 19:51:45
Message-ID: 45B3C451.1060700@cox.net
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On 01/21/07 10:20, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Shashank wrote:
[snip]
>> Where is this announcement? They don't need to drop either
>> engine, as both are GPL. MySQL as a group was never too hot
>> with BDB.
>
>
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/30/2151251
>
> And no BDB (at least last I checked is not GPL)

It's BSD (for obvious reasons), no?

But still, it's just as easy to fork a BSD-licensed project as a GPL
product. Just as NetBSD & OpenBSD.

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