Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 198.240.213.26]
on August 09, 2007 06:56 AM
Starting with the headline: "MySQL ends distribution of Enterprise source tarballs". The truth is that MySQL will no longer be distributing Enterprise source tarballs themselves, which is quite different. Anybody who receives an Enterprise source tarball can distribute it (because it's licensed under the GPL). MySQL can't "end" distribution to non-customers. All they can do is stop doing it themselves, which they have a perfect right to do.
Then some commenter suggested moving to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL may be a reasonable choice as a database, but I would never contribute to a project which has such a defective license. PostgreSQL is licensed under the BSD, which means that anytime Microsoft wants to take over a chunk of PostgreSQL code and incorporate it into a proprietary, closed product, it's free to do that. If you value freedom in the software world, you won't even help to test PostgreSQL. Of course, most people don't value freedom, so this may not apply to you.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 198.240.213.26] on August 09, 2007 06:56 AMThen some commenter suggested moving to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL may be a reasonable choice as a database, but I would never contribute to a project which has such a defective license. PostgreSQL is licensed under the BSD, which means that anytime Microsoft wants to take over a chunk of PostgreSQL code and incorporate it into a proprietary, closed product, it's free to do that. If you value freedom in the software world, you won't even help to test PostgreSQL. Of course, most people don't value freedom, so this may not apply to you.
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