Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Mark On 04/09/2009, at 9:25 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: Back in the day there was an assertion in the MySQL internals PDF with respect to the license of any client library created after reading that doc. The PDF has been replaced by HTML and I don't see that claim anymore. Does anyone remember

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread MARK CALLAGHAN
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote: > Hi Paul > > On 03/09/2009, at 10:54 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: >> >> As far as I know, with the advent of the BSD licensed libdrizzle >> (https://launchpad.net/libdrizzle), which also runs with MySQL (and I assume >> MariaDB), the dual licensing m

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Paul On 03/09/2009, at 10:54 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: As far as I know, with the advent of the BSD licensed libdrizzle (https://launchpad.net/libdrizzle ), which also runs with MySQL (and I assume MariaDB), the dual licensing model is now irrelevant. You're legally correct (apart from li

Re: [Maria-discuss] [Maria-developers] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Kristian Nielsen
MARK CALLAGHAN writes: > Will MariaDB incorporate BSD-licensed features published by the community? Yes. Though looking at the web pages, this is not as clear as it could be. I did find it at the end of this page: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_the_community - Kristian.

Re: [Maria-discuss] [Maria-developers] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread MARK CALLAGHAN
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Henrik Ingo 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 wrote: >> Why it's perfectly OK that MariaDB gets

Re: [Maria-discuss] [Maria-developers] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: > As far as I know, with the advent of the BSD licensed libdrizzle > (https://launchpad.net/libdrizzle), which also runs with MySQL (and I assume > MariaDB), the dual licensing model is now irrelevant. You may be right. For practical purposes

Re: [Maria-discuss] [Maria-developers] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Henrik Ingo
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 wrote: > Why it's perfectly OK that MariaDB gets MySQL bugfixes for free and > instead it's a rip off if MySQL

Re: [Maria-discuss] [Maria-developers] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Paul McCullagh
Hi Arjen, (Also posted to Maria-Discuss, so postings to Maria-Developers can be dropped on follow-up). On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote: Hi Henrik, Kristian, On 03/09/2009, at 9:05 PM, Henrik Ingo wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Kristian Nielsen wrote: Kristian Niels