Posted by: Anonymous
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on January 17, 2008 11:40 PM
You speak as if that benefit was exclusive to the GPL. But it isn't.
If MySQL were distributed under the MIT license, it would remain free forever as well. It would remain even if it were under the public domain. No one can retroactively revoke given rights - unless you didn't met the license's conditions or the license expired (in which case it wouldn't be free in the first place).
Moreover, Sun bought MySQL AB, which in turn means it has bought the actual copyright over MySQL. Sun is MySQL's owner now. They could change the license of their versions of MySQL if they wanted to, no matter what the previous license were (GPL, MIT, whatever).
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Re: Why should it suck?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 201.43.173.190] on January 17, 2008 11:40 PMIf MySQL were distributed under the MIT license, it would remain free forever as well. It would remain even if it were under the public domain. No one can retroactively revoke given rights - unless you didn't met the license's conditions or the license expired (in which case it wouldn't be free in the first place).
Moreover, Sun bought MySQL AB, which in turn means it has bought the actual copyright over MySQL. Sun is MySQL's owner now. They could change the license of their versions of MySQL if they wanted to, no matter what the previous license were (GPL, MIT, whatever).
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