Hi
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Rist wrote:
When it comes to "Freedom"....many companies working, contributing, and supporting open source codebases have information disclosure policies very similar to MySQL [1]. The code is still GPL and out there for everyone to check out [2]. Our commercial efforts around MySQL are the thing that allows us to staff up with hundreds of engineers writing all of this code, and this in turn translates directly to the new features and stability of the community edition.
Andrew
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20120108120323/http://www.redhat.com/about/news/blog/commitment-to-open/
[2] http://labs.mysql.com
Just to be clear, RHEL != Fedora. Red Hat policy for RHEL kernel is not acceptable to Fedora and Fedora kernel continues to have the patches split out. You cannot use that to defend MySQL policies here. You can do whatever you want to do for the MySQL "enterprise edition" which is a commercial product but the community project should have transparency and openness in how it handles bugs, security issues, test cases etc. If you are willing to commit to that, that is a step forward.
Rahul
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