Tragedy?

Tragedy?

Posted Aug 16, 2007 13:15 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: Tragedy? by ncm
Parent article: MySQL stops distributing Enterprise Server source code

It is in the nature of PostgreSQL's license that a company could fork it and place (its changes to) the fork under dual proprietary and GNU GP licenses, while continuing to merge changes from the parent project.

This has been going on for years, see EnterpriseDB. They aim for people migrating from oracle. As such they have a number of features that simply don't interest the open source version.

However, next to that they also develop features for the wider community and take part in discussions. They feed back some of the more interesting features to the main project. I've not seen any complaints about any of this.

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