[ILUG] Mother of God!

[kevin lyda]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:54:15AM -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
> I wouldn't trust Oracle's intentions one bit -- and losing Sleepycat's
> work would be painful. There is always PostgreSQL to replace MySQL though,
> right?

You can't lose MySQL.  It's GPL'd.  And it has contributions from
non-MySQL people.  So future releases would have to honor that license
unless they rewrite all the parts they don't own the copyright to.

Postgres is under a BSD license.  If Oracle bought Postgres, they could
close it up and you'd be stuck at the last public source release.

Kevin

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