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Re:Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL by masklinn on Sunday September 02, 2012 @01:02PM (#4467473)
MariaDB is by Monty, creator of MySQL who previously sold-then-forked it. So there's no guarantee the same thing won't happen to it (quite the opposite really).
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Re:Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL by fhars on Sunday September 02, 2012 @02:14PM (#4467665)
He does no longer own the exclusive rights to the code (they are Oracle's now) and so can only publish under the GPL.
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