Re: Oracle buys Innobase - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mitch Pirtle
Subject Re: Oracle buys Innobase
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Msg-id 330532b60510081635s2b7503b6t274b76398ba7fb2d@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Oracle buys Innobase  (felix@crowfix.com)
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On 10/8/05, felix@crowfix.com <felix@crowfix.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.

They can only do the GPL stuff in the GPL-licensed MySQL; and they
cannot incorporate someone else's GPL works in a proprietary (non-GPL)
commercial release.

This basically means that InnoDB table support must come out of the
commercial MySQL.

-- Mitch

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