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MySQL, Postgres and copyright assignment

MySQL, Postgres and copyright assignment

Posted May 19, 2011 18:00 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: MySQL, Postgres and copyright assignment by sorpigal
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

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.


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