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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.
So, now Oracle can just raise the price high enough that either the commercial version of MySQL has to go up to cover the price, or they are forced to remove it. If MySQL makes the choice to remove it from the commercial version, they will likely take it out of the GPL version as well, since they likely don't want the commercially licensed version to be the red headed step child of the GPL version, since their business plan relies on convincing people they need the commercial license as much as possible.
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Andreas Kretschmer
Sent: Sat 10/8/2005 3:34 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> schrieb:
> Ultimately, MySQL should drop InnoDB.
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3,48400,48400#msg-48400
InnoDB is GPL. But, i'm also confused.
My guess: a fork in the future.
Regards, Andreas
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