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MariaDB: Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source?

MariaDB: Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source?

Posted Aug 20, 2012 2:51 UTC (Mon) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
In reply to: MariaDB: Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source? by akeane
Parent article: MariaDB: Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source?

"Use the source Luke? Nope, we are writing the code from scratch to avoid copyright assignment issues"

There are no copyright assignment issues with using the MySQL source, unless you want Oracle to integrate your changes into their releases. You're just as much at liberty to fork it as you are any other GPL project.


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MariaDB: Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source?

Posted Aug 20, 2012 3:51 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

they don't want the result to be limited by the GPL

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