BSD license vs. copyright assignment
BSD license vs. copyright assignment
Posted Jan 3, 2010 11:19 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: BSD license vs. copyright assignment by JoeBuck
Parent article: The ongoing MySQL campaign
I am in agreement with you that Oracle can't kill MySQL because of this. My
argument was never that forking is not possible in a project that requires
copyright assignment. It is merely that copyright assignments creates a
privileged position for one entity. In that case of FSF, it allows them to
relicense code to GPLv3 or later. In the case of Sun or Oracle, it allows
them to sell proprietary versions.
argument was never that forking is not possible in a project that requires
copyright assignment. It is merely that copyright assignments creates a
privileged position for one entity. In that case of FSF, it allows them to
relicense code to GPLv3 or later. In the case of Sun or Oracle, it allows
them to sell proprietary versions.
Note however there are some fundamental differences betweeen GCC and MySQL.
Applications that are compiled with GCC aren't affected by the GCC license.
Applications that link to MySQL database are.
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