Re: Oracle buys Innobase

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От felix@crowfix.com
Тема Re: Oracle buys Innobase
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Msg-id 20051008211154.GA20723@crowfix.com
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Ответ на Re: Oracle buys Innobase  ("Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
Ответы Re: Oracle buys Innobase  (Martín Marqués <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>)
Re: Oracle buys Innobase  (Matthew Terenzio <matt@jobsforge.com>)
Re: Oracle buys Innobase  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
Re: Oracle buys Innobase  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Oracle buys Innobase  (Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle@gmail.com>)
Re: Oracle buys Innobase  (Jason Earl <jearl@xmission.com>)
Re: Oracle buys Innobase  (felix@crowfix.com)
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On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> What it comes down to is this.  MySQL is dual licensed.  You can use
> the GPL version, or the commercial version.  In order to sell the
> commercially licensed version, MySQL must have the rights to all the
> code in their base.  So, in order for MySQL to sell a commercail
> version of MySQL with innodb support, they have to pay innobase a
> bit to include it, or rip it out.

I don't understand.  If both MySQL and Innodb are GPL licensed,
commercial or not should make no difference, and they can add all the
GPL changes they want o the last Innodb GPL release.

What am I missing?

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