New Apache License?

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Mon Feb 23 01:42:19 UTC 2004


On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:27:06 -0600 "Christofer C. Bell" <cbell at jayhawks.net> wrote:
> In reading what you said here, I think you meant "yep". :-) 

possibly, i might not have followed your logic.

> So in the end, development houses will most likely go with buying the license 
> or using another product.  I'll bet that MySQL decides to change their 
> license scheme again at some point -- I think what they've done here will end 
> up backfiring on them.

we'll have to see. there are two other viable SQL databases in the
open source community, both of which are arguably more sophisticated
than MySQL. businesses might well find themselves considering these
alternatives, and may well change databases rather than deal with
the MySQL license weirdness.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty at averillpark.net
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