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He’s free to do what he wants with his company. The problem is all these people going into headless chicken mode about how Oracle could discontinue the open so
by stephenr 9y ago
He’s free to do what he wants with his company.
The problem is all these people going into headless chicken mode about how Oracle could discontinue the open source licence of the “original” MySQL, so they’re embracing MariaDB (the company) because it’s run by Monty so it must be open source friendly.
You can use/support MariaDB all you want but let’s not pretend they’re great bastions of open source compared to Oracle in the MySQL realm.
- noncoml 9y agoThe grand parent made it sound as if they changed the MariaDB server license, so I wanted to make a clarification that this is not the case.
- stephenr 9y agoNot really. S/he referenced the BSL, which MariaDB (the company) absolutely uses for it's MaxScale product.
- noncoml 9y ago> That Business Source License that MariaDB put forward for new code at one point As I said, I just made a clarification on that “new code” means other products and not MariaDB server. Just for the record I am not a MySQL-based DB user, so I don’t really care at all about MariaDB or BSL. My license of choice for releasing my code is AGPL.