Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th May 2008 19:13 UTC
When Sun announced it would offer certain plugins and features for enterprise customers only, and maybe even make them closed-source, the open source community was up in arms. It seems that MySQL and Sun have listened to the criticism, as these plans are now off the table. In fact, these plans did not originate within Sun in the first place.
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Member since:2005-07-06
What for?
A lot of customers and ISV's are still on 4.1 because that was when mySQL moved from LGPL drivers. Having a dual license on the drivers would allow us non-open source developers to use/redistribute mySQL 5.x drivers without buying a commercial license.
I'm not saying they should not license the driver under GPL, but dual license under GPL and (CDDL, LGPL).
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2005-07-06
What for? From a drivers point of view I doubt that would be possible. You'd see MySQL usage sink like a rock, as they've played games with driver licensing before - and that was just LGPL -> GPL.