* John D. Burger (john@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >The good thing is that there are several companies supporting > >Postgres, > >so whatever one of them does it does not affect the market as a whole. > > Surely there are also third-party companies that provide "support" > for MySqueal in some similar sense? This is, truely, a very interesting question. I'm not 100% sure about this but I thought that the non-GPL version of MySQL was tied in with their support contracts. If this is the case (and I could be wrong) there's no option to go elsewhere for support if you're using the non-GPL license (required if you don't want to give out your source code to anything which touches MySQL, or at least that's my understanding of how they interpret the 'derivative' concept in the GPL). So, there may be third-party companies which provide support for the GPL'd version of MySQL, but alot of people use the non-GPL version because they don't want to be bound by the GPL to release their source code. I'd be very curious if MySQL has an official say on this.. Of course, they could switch to PostgreSQL as it uses the BSD license... :) Thanks, Stephen
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