Not true.
As a condition of getting European Commission's approval of its acquisition of Sun/MySQL, Oracle had to agree to
continuethe GPL release.
And there are non-Oracle upgrades from Google, facebook, Percona, etc. So no one is beholden to Oracle.
--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Why facebook used mysql ?
> To: "Andy" <angelflow@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>, "DaveGauthier" <dave.gauthier@intel.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 12:31 PM
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Andy
> <angelflow@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Any upgrades that are based on the MySQL source code
> will be legally required to be released under GPL too.
> >
> > That's the beauty of GPL.
>
> Upgrades released by Oracle *do not* have be under GPL.
> They own all
> the IP, and can release future versions under whatever
> terms they see
> fit.
>
> Other entities, do have to use the GPL if they release
> their own updates.
>
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