Re: Effect of the MySQL FLOSS License Exception?

[Zak Greant]

On Jun 16, 2004, at 22:43, John Cowan wrote:
No Spam scripsit:
Gill decides to make all of Abcess BSD licensed and incorporates
MySQL code in it. The Abcess code is reasonably independent from the
MySQL code but they are definitely intermingled, linked together in
an executable. He merrily releases Abcess (but keeps the source code
private which he is allowed to) which squashes every other database
and he goes on to become a zillionaire, while MySQL goes broke.
IIRC it's only the client-side code which has the FLOSS exception.
The actual database engine is purely GPL.  So at most GWB (hmm,
sounds familiar) can only provide excellent client tools for MySQL,
which redounds to the benefit of MySQL AB.
Actually, v0.2 of the exception will apply to both client and server.
My personal opinion is that, given the multifarious ways for a 
sufficiently motivated large organization to crush us like the uppity 
bugs that we are, we should not lose too much sleep worrying about that 
particular possible vulnerability. :)

Cheers!
--zak
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