Not true. As a condition of getting European Commission's approval of its acquisition of Sun/MySQL, Oracle had to agree to continue the GPL release. And there are non-Oracle upgrades from Google, facebook, Percona, etc. So no one is beholden to Oracle. --- On Tue, 11/9/10, Dave Page <dpage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Dave Page <dpage@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Why facebook used mysql ? > To: "Andy" <angelflow@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "DaveGauthier" <dave.gauthier@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 12:31 PM > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Andy > <angelflow@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Any upgrades that are based on the MySQL source code > will be legally required to be released under GPL too. > > > > That's the beauty of GPL. > > Upgrades released by Oracle *do not* have be under GPL. > They own all > the IP, and can release future versions under whatever > terms they see > fit. > > Other entities, do have to use the GPL if they release > their own updates. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
