Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Curiously, the risk for MySQL here is not that Oracle becomes an Open
> Source company, but that they license InnoDB and Berkeley DB under open
> source licenses only (which would be a heavy blow to other Sleepycat
> customers as well, by the way).

Now *that* is a possibility that I hadn't thought of ... so you are
suggesting that Oracle's direction might be to remove the Dual-License in
favor of a purely OSS license for those technologies?  So, for instance,
InnoDB would still be available, but *only* to those that haven't licensed
a copy of MySQL?  I like that one ... :)

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