Re: Oracle buys Innobase

From: Mitch Pirtle <mitch(dot)pirtle(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "felix(at)crowfix(dot)com" <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 23:40:53
Message-ID: 330532b60510081640m2f35f20dkf5eed3f224ff2016@mail.gmail.com
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On 10/8/05, Mitch Pirtle <mitch(dot)pirtle(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> This basically means that InnoDB table support must come out of the
> commercial MySQL.

For that matter, I'm not sure they can release MySQL under a
commercial license while incorporating 3rd party GPL works, without
the express permission of the copyright holders for those included
works.

Whatever deal they used to have just got changed, that's for sure.

-- Mitch

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