Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-10 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On 10/10/05, Greg Sabino Mullane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A good question. I think one answer is the MySQL name. Many open-source > advocates seem enamored of MySQL, but you can never pin them down about > exactly what it is they love so much about it. Maybe we can rebrand > PG as "MiSQL" or

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-08 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On 10/8/05, Mitch Pirtle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This basically means that InnoDB table support must come out of the > commercial MySQL. For that matter, I'm not sure they can release MySQL under a commercial license while incorporating 3rd party GPL works, without th

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-08 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On 10/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't understand. If both MySQL and Innodb are GPL licensed, > commercial or not should make no difference, and they can add all the > GPL changes they want o the last Innodb GPL release. They can only do the GPL stuff in the GPL-lice