On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Graham Leggett <minfrin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09 Nov 2010, at 7:30 PM, David Boreham wrote: > >> Sorry but this is 100% not true. It may be true for a 3rd party (you >> release something under the GPL, I enhance it, therefore I am required to >> release my enhancement under the GPL). But Oracle owns the copyright to the >> MySql code and therefore they can decide to do whatever they want with it. >> The only thing they can't do is to 'un-release' existing code released under >> the GPL. Everything else is possible. >> >> Ownership of the copyright trumps the GPL. > > Ownership of the copyright is owned by whoever made the contribution, and > any competent version control system will give you the list of contributions > (and therefore contributors). If a contribution was made in terms of the > GPL, then permission would need to be sought from everyone who has made a > contribution before it could be released under a different license. Contributed code to MySQL AB MUST be assigned copyright to MySQL AB. If it's been incorporated into MySQL proper, it's owned by MySQL AB ne Oracle. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
