On 05/04/2010 10:01 AM, C wrote:
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 15:43, David C. Rankin
wrote: Troublesome:
2. Non-assertion. As copyright holder, Oracle will change Sun’s current policy and shall not assert or threaten to assert against anyone that a third party vendor’s implementations of storage engines must be released under the GPL because they have implemented the application programming interfaces available as part of MySQL’s Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture.
A commercial license will not be required by Oracle from third party storage engine vendors in order to implement the application programming interfaces available as part of MySQL's Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture.
You have to love/hate legalese... depending how you read this.. doesn't it seem to lift some of the more draconian Sun restrictions.. and now basically says if you use the API, you don't have to GPL the result?
Yes, if one favors the take, extend, embrace, and don't give back model, than this is a wonderful change. This change certainly opens the doors into the proprietary abyss. Robert
C.
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