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Re: Oracle buys Innobase

Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle@gmail.com>

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From: Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle@gmail.com>
To: "felix@crowfix.com" <felix@crowfix.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
Date: 2005-10-08T23:35:11Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On 10/8/05, felix@crowfix.com <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
>
> I don't understand.  If both MySQL and Innodb are GPL licensed,
> commercial or not should make no difference, and they can add all the
> GPL changes they want o the last Innodb GPL release.

They can only do the GPL stuff in the GPL-licensed MySQL; and they
cannot incorporate someone else's GPL works in a proprietary (non-GPL)
commercial release.

This basically means that InnoDB table support must come out of the
commercial MySQL.

-- Mitch