On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Henrik Ingo<henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi> wrote: > Hi Giuseppe > > I'm cross-posting to maria-discuss since this is now a non-technical > discussion. Please remove maria-developers when replying. > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Giuseppe Maxia<g.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why it's perfectly OK that MariaDB gets MySQL bugfixes for free and >> instead it's a rip off if MySQL gets MariaDB bug fixes? > > Of course, all of the MariaDB source code is available as GPL, just > like for MySQL. Sun is not prohibited from using it under the GPL, > just like we are using MySQL code.
I look forward to using improvements published by MariaDB. > >> MariaDB requires the same kind of legal grants that Sun asks, and the >> FAQ even states "The MCA is based on Sun's Contributor Agreement. We >> think it is one of the best contributor agreements around! " >> http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MCA_FAQ > > We've made some adjustments, but yes, apparently it is one of the best > contributor agreements around, the community seems to think. That's > why we use it. Will MariaDB incorporate BSD-licensed features published by the community? -- Mark Callaghan mdcal...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
