> "Michael" == Michael Widenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Please note that we NEVER have asked NuSphere to sign
Michael> over copyright of Gemini to us. We do it only for the
Michael> core server, and this is actually not an uncommon thing
Michael> among open source
Hi!
> "Jan" == Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan> Moin Monty,
Jan> dear fence-guests,
Thanks.
>> Please note that we NEVER have asked NuSphere to sign over copyright
>> of Gemini to us. We do it only for the core server, and this is
>> actually not an uncommon thing among open so
Hi!
> "Nathan" == Nathan Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nathan> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:35:58AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
>> And this press release
>>
>> http://www.nusphere.com/releases/071601.htm
>>
>> also explains why they had to do it this way.
Nathan> They were always free to
> This is slightly different - FSF wants it so it will have a legal
> position to defend its programs:
There is at least one documented case where the FSF has used
that right to sell a non-open license for GCC to Motorola.
- Sascha Experience IRCG
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 06:37:48PM -0400, Trond Eivind Glomsr?d wrote:
> Michael Widenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Assigning over the code is also something that FSF requires for all
> > code contributions. If you criticize us at MySQL AB, you should
> > also criticize the above.
>
> This
Michael Widenius wrote:
>
> Hi!
Moin Monty,
dear fence-guests,
> Please note that we NEVER have asked NuSphere to sign over copyright
> of Gemini to us. We do it only for the core server, and this is
> actually not an uncommon thing among open source companies. For
> example QT (Trolltech) and X
Michael Widenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please note that we NEVER have asked NuSphere to sign over copyright
> of Gemini to us. We do it only for the core server, and this is
> actually not an uncommon thing among open source companies. For
> example QT (Trolltech) and Ximian (a lot of gno
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:35:58AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> And this press release
>
> http://www.nusphere.com/releases/071601.htm
>
> also explains why they had to do it this way.
They were always free to fork, but doing it the way they did --
violating MySQL AB's license --
Hi!
As I do have some insight in these matters, I thought I would comment
on this thing
> "Jan" == Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> As some of you know, Nusphere is trying to sell MySQL with an additional
>> transaction-based table manager called Gemini.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:45:54AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > And this press release
> >
> > http://www.nusphere.com/releases/071601.htm
> ...
> On a more significant note, I hear the word "fork" clearly suggested
> in that text. It is almost like MySQL AB GPL'ed the MySQL code
And the story goes on...
http://www.newsforge.com/comments.pl?sid=01/07/18/0226219&commentsort=0&mode=flat&threshold=0&pid=0
Jan
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> And this press release
>
> http://www.nusphere.com/releases/071601.htm
>
> also explains why they had to do it this way. They disagreed
> with the policy that every code added to the core system must
> be owned by MySQL AB, so that these guys can sell it for
>
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> As some of you know, Nusphere is trying to sell MySQL with an additional
> transaction-based table manager called Gemini. They enabled download of
> the source code yesterday at:
>
>http://mysql.org/download3.php?file_id=1118
>
> Looking through the 122k lines of C code
As some of you know, Nusphere is trying to sell MySQL with an additional
transaction-based table manager called Gemini. They enabled download of
the source code yesterday at:
http://mysql.org/download3.php?file_id=1118
Looking through the 122k lines of C code in the Gemini directory, it
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