Jan Wieck wrote: > On 10/8/2005 4:34 AM, Andreas Kretschmer wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > >> Ultimately, MySQL should drop InnoDB. > > > > http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3,48400,48400#msg-48400 > > > > InnoDB is GPL. But, i'm also confused. > > > > My guess: a fork in the future. > > This whole GPL forking thing is still the same as it was before. One can > only take the last version, released under GPL, and build a GPL-only > project based on it. > > Oracle bought the copyright of InnoDB with the company. So if anything > goes wrong during their upcoming relicensing talk, MySQL can of course > fork off a GPL version of InnoDB, but that fork cannot be included in > their commercial version of MySQL. What value would that fork have for > them then? Using a pure GPL fork of InnoDB is in conflict with their own > licensing scheme and I don't think MySQL is in the position to say bye > to dual licensing. > > To have a really good position when talking to Oracle, MySQL will need > to brush up on the BDB support, and that pretty quick. What about the patents InnoDB might hold? It would be easier to enforce a patent based on the fact that they are using code actually developed by the patent holder. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
