On Thursday 28 March 2013 11:49:57 am Alan Peterson wrote: > Until about 15 minutes ago, I had never heard of MariaDB - a > community-developed fork of MySQL, with development led by the guy who > founded MySQL. So I read up on it. > > Wikipedia suggests there may be an "uncertainty of MySQL license status under > its current Oracle ownership". Given this as the impetus for launching and > maintaining the project, is this something that the Rivendell development > team might adopt down the road?
Going forward, there may be some question about the license on future versions. That's true. ( post 2015 anyway, maybe, not likely ) GPL is more of a communist manifesto than a software license, so I'd expect Oracle ( or anyone else, for that matter ) to have some issues with it. In truth, Oracle has committed to GPL versions to at least 2015. There is a rumor that Oracle may stop commercially improving the GPL version, but it's an unsubstantiated rumor. MariaDB appears more than anything to be a personal "thing" about Oracle. Personally, I've always favored Postgres, as it's true "open source," and doesn't carry the restrictions of GPL. It's pretty much a BSD license. About the only restriction is that you can't sue the Regents of the University of California if you break it. Unfortunately, changing from one to another is not exactly an "easy" task. In addition to MariaDB there are also Drizzle and Percona, all of which claim some advantage or another. Welcome to the personality driven world of Open Source ! -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com "Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing." _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
