Sun buys MySQL

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

I think they removed an Indexing SOftware because there was too much content to index and that took a lot of system resources ans users did not want that .

Ubuntu 7.10 does not have ANY indexing tool by default , but when you choose to install an indexing tool it installs Beagle

 

[nileshgr]

hey what about the GPL licensing of MySQL ? Will SUN keep it ?

 

[vish786]

Sun's under OpenGroup, probly Mysql would be shifted

 

[nileshgr]

Sun's under OpenGroup, probly Mysql would be shifted

we should hope that the open source license shall not be canceled. also, do you think the 100+ million users of MySQL out of which about 75-80 % will be Open Source (my estimate) shall agree for the cancellation of open source license ?

 

[vish786]

I think No... hope sun continues same open license for mysql considering as a seperate licensed product. [dilemma state]

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

I think No... hope sun continues same open license for mysql considering as a seperate licensed product. [dilemma state]

But Sun's Open-Source License is OSI Certified Too so even if they change license it would still be Open Source .

Also , Java is GPL'ed so there's a very high chance that MySQL will remain GPL

 

[nileshgr]

sun probably is going to have the same license for MySQL.

Facts on Sun Microsystems

* Founded 1982 by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy

* 34.200 employees worldwide, 13.9 billion dollars (9.4 billion euros) in revenues FY 2007, market cap (total
value of all Sun shares) about the same as yearly revenues

* Grew astronomically with the Web, suffered from the Web bubble, now profitable over the last four quarters

* Lead by Scott McNealy until 2006, now by Jonathan Schwartz (a prolific blogger)

* The world’s biggest contributor to Open Source: Open Office, Java (now under GPL), GlassFish, NetBeans — and soon MySQL

* Environmentally friendly; large numbers of distributed employees working at least partially from home

* Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, just south of Cupertino (MySQL’s North American headquarters)

* Counts some of the worlds most brilliant innovators amongst its current and past employees

See the line I have bold and italicized. Is it really true ??

 

[mehulved]

But will it be GPL v2 or v3. That does matter a lot too. Like they're keen on GPL v3 for Solaris, AFAIK.
Also, even if Sun stops distributing MySQL under GPL then community can pick up from the last GPL'ed code, fork it and maintain it.

 

[nileshgr]

But will it be GPL v2 or v3. That does matter a lot too. Like they're keen on GPL v3 for Solaris, AFAIK.
Also, even if Sun stops distributing MySQL under GPL then community can pick up from the last GPL'ed code, fork it and maintain it.

the line says Sun is one of the biggest contributors to OSF. If thats true, i don't think Sun will stop distributing MySQL under GPL.