Hi Arjen!
On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote:
Drizzle is available under a GPL license and the bzr history
contains, hopefully signed, commits from non-Sun employees, thus
making it impossible for any current or future owner of Sun to
simply take the code and run. Which is the whole reason for the
existence of the GPL.
I'm sure Sun's lawyers could clarify this, but I wouldn't bother.
Without a doubt management has done all the necessary work before
this project was started.
Actually, BSD licensing of new externally written contributions is
exactly what would allow Sun (or whomever owns Sun) to grab (a copy
of the) the codebase and also sell it under a non-GPL license. After
all, BSD allows them to do so and they do own the GPL licensed bits
of the code. This doesn't take anything away from the community or
contributors, but it does give Sun some extra opportunity (such as,
effectively, dual-licensing just like MySQL has done).
Interesting. I wasn't aware that contributions should all be under
BSD. Thanks for the pointer!
cheers,
-k
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