On Thursday 17 January 2008, James wrote: > I only ask because Sun just paid > a billion dollars for MySQL.... > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html > > How is it that Open Source is for sale?
It's not. MySQL (the company) is for sale and Sun buys the customer base. > GPL? Yeah, what does this mean? MySQL's software is distributed under the terms of the GPL as an open source product. They have a more restrictive license for their super-duper products that isn't GPL. Doesn't affect ownership of the business in any way. > Is gentoo next? > > > James -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
