Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:53:17 -0500
Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list@gmail.com> wrote:

> The fact that PostgreSQL is NOT released under GPL is the reason that
> people like me are here - MySQL's license drove us away from them.
> Their change of the driver licensing prevents us from shipping new
> drivers with our applications.
>
> GPL is a poison pill when it comes to groups like us that are trying
> to  develop standards (and shared code bases) that can be used by both
> opensource and corporate types alike.
>
> So keep up the good work!
>
> Dan

Preach it brother!

Michael