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A bit of historyA bit of historyPosted Dec 15, 2009 16:11 UTC (Tue) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)In reply to: A bit of history by prl Parent article: Some thoughts on MySQL and Oracle
> Bad move. mSQL was out there and GPL'd and with no more than an extra letter in the name, MySQL simply forked away out of his control. Mr Hughes's company wasn't bought by Sun and I don't think many people remember him. Mr Widenius's company was, of course - and the only reason Mr Widenius made his money is because he was able to take over GPL'd code and had the wit not to repeat Hughes's mistake. He's welcome to dual license anything he produces
If MySQL was forked from GPL code, how could he offer to dual-license the resulting product?
According to everything I've found, your story is not correct: e.g. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/history.html says "However, after some testing, we came to the conclusion that mSQL was not fast enough or flexible enough for our needs."
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