Re:Sun Buys MySQL
by mhartl on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @11:31AM
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MySQL is available under the GPL. Nothing sort-of about that.
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MySQL is available under the GPL, but MySQL AB has a history of misleading people about what the GPL license means, in order to convince people to pay for commercial licenses which they don't need.
That's what I meant by "sort-of" -- MySQL is GPLed, but where potential customers are concerned, they try really hard to make sure that people won't take advantage of that fact.