MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 16:41 UTC (Wed) by armijn (subscriber, #3653)
In reply to: MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog) by xtifr
Parent article: MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)

It seems MySQL was a right addition to the Oracle family then: when Monty was still there they claimed that the MySQL protocol also fell under the GPL which of course didn't fly, but put a lot of fear into people who then bought a license. Evil. This is pretty well documented, here's a comment from Ted Ts'o from a few years back:

http://krow.livejournal.com/684068.html?thread=2672932#t2...

So, first selling your company, then slamming the new owners for being evil (even though they continue to run it the same way as before), that sounds like keeping, eating, renting out and selling the cake at the same time.

*that* is what irritates me.

MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 17:30 UTC (Wed) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link] (2 responses)

It seems MySQL was a right addition to the Oracle family then

As a fan of PostgreSQL, I'm hardly going to disagree with you. But you didn't say that you found it irritating that Monty was leaping to conclusions. You complained that "many people seem to be going into paranoia mode immediately" (emphasis mine). I think I adequately explained that, and why it's unreasonable to find that irritating.

Monty's behavior, which I have publicly criticized in the past, is irrelevant to the point here, which is that Oracle has given us ample reason to be paranoid.

MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 19:24 UTC (Wed) by geek (guest, #45074) [Link]

WOW! all this and nobody's calling them Nazis yet??

MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 19:51 UTC (Wed) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link]

Yes, you are right there, my apologies. There are multiple layers of frustration there and I should not have mixed them.

I find it sad that people jumped to false conclusions after reading the original blog post (which has been amended) without verifying with Oracle first. I should have done what those people should have done too: first think, then post :-)