MySQL, Postgres and copyright assignment [LWN.net]

MySQL, Postgres and copyright assignment

Posted May 19, 2011 17:48 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: MySQL, Postgres and copyright assignment by dkg
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

This is a good point. From the view of most of the world it seems like having a company behind a program makes it reliable, but from a free software point of view having no single owner improves reliability far more. The MySQL example is quite instructive in this regard.

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MySQL, Postgres and copyright assignment

Posted May 19, 2011 18:00 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

If MySQL represents the worst case scenario where a central copyright codebase gets bought out by a potentially hostile competitor then I'm not sure how bad that really is given that there are several active forks that look promising right now and the main vendor is still supporting and releasing new versions.