On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Andy <angelflow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. It is true. The EU commitments are entirely independent of the licencing. Also note that the commitments (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/042364) are pretty loosely worded. For example, Oracle would be fulfilling them if they released a new Enterprise version with 1000 new features, and a corresponding community version with just one of those features. And after 5 years (nearer to 4 now I guess), those commitments get thrown away entirely. -- 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
