Mysql is a great database , I personally using it for my many sites and i scare if any how this deal destroy open nature of mysql ,it bad for opensource and FOSS people loving prople, but it nice to know about mariaDB ........
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:32 PM, tirveni yadav <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Anupam Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Nalin Savara wrote: > > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 > > >> > Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > [...] > > >> > > > >> > > I think this is a good opportunity for Oracle to make strategic > > >> > > moves-- similar to Microsoft corp-- and to try to monetize many > > >> > > users who are now locked in onto LAMP. > > >> > > > >> > [...] > > >> > > > >> > Would you care to explain how exactly people are "locked into > > >> > LAMP", and why Oracle "monetizing" them is a good thing for > > >> > people at large? > > >> > > >> (1) How are people "locked into Lamp" ? > > >> --> because many people/sites use Drupal, Joomla, PHP etc-- and > > >> incase a particular platform vendor decides to fork the offering into > > >> a premium and non-premium offering; then it is easier for them to pay > > >> for premium service than to take the risk of re-engineering tens of > > >> thousands of code to use a different underlying platform component > > >> eg: database. > > > > > > Since as of today MySQL is GPL, you cannot force a single user of MySQL > > > in a FOSS application to pay you a single paisa. Sorry to bust your > > > dreams, but Oracle can only make people pay from the next release of > > > MySQL (if they switch it to a proprietary licence), and those people > > > can still continue to use the current release and forks thereof with no > > > problems and no payment. > > > > > > > Does MySQL have *zero* community contributed code licensed under GPL? > > If not then doesn't that prevent Oracle from charging even for the > > next version? > > > > MySql follows dual license model: > http://www-jp.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/ > > -- > Regards, > > Tirveni Yadav > > What is this Universe ? From what it arises ? Into what does it go? > In freedom it arises, In freedom it rests and into freedom it melts away. > Upanishads. > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- ********************************** Vinay Yadav B.tech(IT) , JSSATEN [email protected] del.icio.us/vinayrks *********************************** _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
