Re: Oracle buys Innobase

From: Matthew Terenzio <matt(at)jobsforge(dot)com>
To: PgSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Oracle buys Innobase
Date: 2005-10-08 22:26:55
Message-ID: ba56b64eba05c744313425c429b2352b@jobsforge.com
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On Oct 8, 2005, at 5:11 PM, felix(at)crowfix(dot)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.

MySQL owns their code so they can release it with whatever license they
want.
Since they don't own the Innodb code they can't include it in a
commercially licensed product.

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