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Re:It's not okay to pretend your software is open source by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:49PM (#18338656)
> Would you be willing to elaborate what's wrong with the MySQL GPL scheme?

For quite a while, MySQL AB purported on the website and elsewhere that commercial use of MySQL required a paid proprietary license, and that the GPL did not allow commercial use, only non-commercial use.

Eventually, they stopped doing that, but it took a while.

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Re:It's not okay to pretend your software is open source by Bartweiss on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:04PM (#18338828)
Ick, that's part of the story I hadn't heard; my awareness of the whole thing mostly started with the Oracle acquisition. Yeah, that's way different that just offering dual licenses, and not at all ok.
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