Re: MySQL has gone GPL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Karel Zak
Subject Re: MySQL has gone GPL
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.3.96.1000628184706.17152C-100000@ara.zf.jcu.cz
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In response to MySQL has gone GPL  (Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>)
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is quite off-topic, but thought people might be interested in it, in
> case they hadn't heard yet (and I thought, considered it is off-topic in
> general, I'd be better off putting it to hackers than general).  Apologies
> in advance if I'm wrong to do so.
> 
> Anyway, Yahoo reported this morning
> (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000628/ca_va_linu.html) that MySQL formed a
> strategic alliance with VA Linux and released their MySQL product under
> the GPL license.  Now, I've never used MySQL, and, in the learning stages
> of transferring some of my Oracle knowledge to Postgres, I've really
> started to love PGSql, but I thought the developers might want to be aware
> of this development.
On http://www.mysql.com is something about it too.

Interesting is that mySQL will in "strategic alliance" is Progress too..

BTW. --- MySQL with or without GPL, still it is same MySQL :-)
                Karel



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