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| Sun's Acquisition of MySQL |
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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:14:41 -050 |
With Sun Microsystems' reported acquisition of MySQL, what will happen to
MySQL's status of a free database server engine?
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:52:24 -040 |
In article <5#B7g6giIHA.1636@news-server>, Arikanki_noSpam@yahoo.com
says...
> With Sun Microsystems' reported acquisition of MySQL, what will happen to
MySQL's status of a free database server engine?
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> Ahmed Talib
Ahmed,
So far it looks as if nothing will change in regards to that. Sun is
pushing hard into "open source". It has changed its own Solaris
operating system into an open source product and it has plenty in the
Java and web "space".
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Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:23:45 +010 |
Ahmed Talib schrieb:
> With Sun Microsystems' reported acquisition of MySQL, what will happen to
MySQL's status of a free database server engine?
In addition to what Geoff wrote, keep in mind that MySQL is _NOT_ free.
It is open source, but it is not free.
There are forms of free licenses, but first of all this does not apply
to all MySQL engines, but only to the MyISAM engine. And to be "free"
is
bound to certain conditions.
You must read the license carefully; it could happen to you that your
program has to be published under an open source license as well.
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