Re: [GENERAL] proposed improvements to PostgreSQL license

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

One thing to keep in mind: for a very long time, PostgreSQL was the *only* free ("free 
as in free speech, not free as in free beer") DBMS. I told dozens of people to 
consider PostgreSQL instead of, say, MySQL, for that very reason. Whichever free 
software licence you preferred, there was no real choice.

Now, it is no longer the case: as you have read here, MySQL is now fully GPL. The 
concurrency between the two DBMS will increase. Since MySQL has a licence which is 
more hacker-friendly (it cannot be turned into a proprietary product), PostgreSQL, 
which had (along with techincal strengthes) a big advantage with its licence, is now 
behind.