____/ Jerry McBride on Wednesday 22 August 2007 02:13 : \____
> Thufir wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:00:32 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
>>
>>> They must continue to make the source available, or risk breaching the
>>> GPL. If they want to "pull a cdrecord", then we'll just fork.
>>
>>
>> Actually, as MySQL is the author then MySQL could stop releasing new code
>> under the GPL, that's their prerogative. MySQL could go totally closed
>> source, providing there's no code from anyone else mixed in. whether
>> that would actually happen, though...
>>
>>
>
> We're as close as we can be to moving from mysql to something else, possibly
> postgresql. This non-sense that mysql is doing is... stupid. Forget fork...
> just stuff it.
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