On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Michael Widenius <mo...@askmonty.org> wrote: > > Hi! > >>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Partogi <jpart...@scrum8.com> writes: > > Joshua> All, > Joshua> Many people were feeling uncertain whether to use MySQL when Sun was > bought > Joshua> by Oracle. I was one of those people and that is why I chose MariaDB > for my > Joshua> product now. But I need to know what is the plan for MariaDB in the > future? > Joshua> Would there be any chance that MariaDB will be sold to another > company just > Joshua> like MySQL got sold to Sun? Or would MariaDB always be a community > owned? > > Monty Program Ab, who is driving MariaDB is setup as an employee owned > company. You can easily verify it from here: > http://askmonty.org/wiki/The_hacking_business_model > > This is reflected in everyones employee contract and in how we work > every day. > > This means, in practice, is that Monty Program Ab is not setup as a > company that is to be sold as there is no big profit any owner can get > by selling it. Instead our plan for the future is to get enough > income so that we can all afford to spend all our time on working on > MariaDB development.
The content in that URL states that MPAB employees have shared copyright on their contributions. I assume that MPAB has shared copyright on all contributions. Couldn't someone buy MPAB to get shard copyright to all contributions and the MariaDB trademarks? I don't question your intent but I don't see how MPAB cannot be sold or would not have value. -- Mark Callaghan mdcal...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
