| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
|---|---|
| To: | felix(at)crowfix(dot)com |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| Date: | 2005-10-08 21:56:57 |
| Message-ID: | 1301.1128808617@sss.pgh.pa.us |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-advocacy pgsql-general |
felix(at)crowfix(dot)com writes:
> 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.
> What am I missing?
MySQL AB wants to make money by selling non-GPL versions of MySQL.
They can certainly dual-license MySQL itself, because they own it
outright, but they could not ship InnoDB as part of a non-GPL-license
MySQL sale without InnoDB's (and now Oracle's) permission. So they've
got a financial problem with this.
regards, tom lane
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Jim C. Nasby | 2005-10-08 22:01:50 | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| Previous Message | Martín Marqués | 2005-10-08 21:49:45 | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Jim C. Nasby | 2005-10-08 22:01:50 | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |
| Previous Message | Martín Marqués | 2005-10-08 21:49:45 | Re: Oracle buys Innobase |