Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Aug 2007 12:04 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
"MySQL quietly let slip that it would no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball, not quite a year after the company announced a split between its paid and free versions. While the Enterprise Server code is still under the GNU General Public License, MySQL is making it harder for non-customers to access the source code."
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Member since:2005-10-02
- but again, they tend to use the community edition. Besides that - we have postgreSQL.
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That is not correct. They have to make source available to parties that receive binary from them. According to GPL, those parties are free to distribute the source and the binary further.
Another thing is that MySQL is dual licensed. MySQL developer has to sign an agreement that allows MySQL to use her/his work in non GPL projects. That's why MySQL can be sold to a parties that use it as a part of proprietary software.
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2005-07-27
Besides their customers (who are actually using the product) I don't think a lot of people were doing anything with the code, so I don't see the issue. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Either way it's their right to only release source code to customers.