On Jun 1, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Allen wrote:
> Not that no, but it is no longer in public domain so to speak. Then
> again I
> guess MySQL was a business anyway just not as big as Sun
Where do you get this crazy information?
MySQL was never "in the public domain". It had a dual GPL/commercial
license that was somewhat confusing, but completely open. Sun
announced plans to make a proprietary *new* product they were going to
add to MySQL, but later changed and announced that it, too, would be
open.
Once something is released as open source, no one can buy the company
and un-release it. Even the authors cannot go back and say that you
can no longer use it the way you previously had. The Microsoft model
of buying a company and burying it simply does not apply.
-- Ed Leafe
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