[ILUG] Mother of God!

[John Allen]

On Fri 10 Feb 2006 19:05, kevin lyda wrote:
> 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.
>

>From which those who weren't happy with the Oracle move could carry on, 
without of course Oracle's improvements.

> Kevin
>
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> kevin at ie.suberic.net

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