Re: MySQL Con 2008 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: MySQL Con 2008
Date
Msg-id 200712162351.lBGNptv19475@momjian.us
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In response to Re: MySQL Con 2008  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Devrim G?ND?Z wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:53 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> how does a corporate project create a real community when nobody in
> >> the community can ever be more than a 2nd-class citizen?
> >
> > This may be a good item for the talk: Accept patches from community
> > (even though I know that it will never happen because of dual
> > licensing , but still...)
>
> My understanding is they do accept patches from the community (I could
> be wrong). It is just that they require you sign over the rights to the
> patches, which is not all that uncommon.

Yes, or they rewrite the patch.

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