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> The MariaDB story is a bit of a fuck you though - cries about how oracle will close mysql (which hasn’t happened) but then adopts a bullshit license for its o
by Jedd 8y ago
> The MariaDB story is a bit of a fuck you though - cries about how oracle will close mysql (which hasn’t happened) but then adopts a bullshit license for its own software.
What?
There was strong precedent for fearing what may happen with MySQL. Knowledge of what happened to Hudson, OES, OpenOffice, Solaris ... this would concern the stewards of any bit of software that got swallowed up by Oracle.
(Edit: Also I recall some worrying stories coming out from Monty and other key developers.)
What's this 'bullshit licence' that MariaDB has? I thought the source was (L)GPL all the way down?
- stephenr 8y agoLookup MariaDB MaxScale.
- Jedd 8y ago> Lookup MariaDB MaxScale. This is like a scavenger hunt. I've looked up MariaDB MaxScale ... and found an optional / add-on product that is aimed at Enterprises, seems to require an Enterprise support licence for the Enterprise edition of MariaDB ... and I completely fail to see how any of this demonstrates that the 'MariaDB story is a bit of a fuck you'.
- stephenr 8y agoA DuckDuckGo search for 'mariadb maxscale license' gave me this in result #3: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109213/open-source-tools/open-source-uproar-as-mariadb-goes-commercial.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109213/open-source-tools/... Basically - their formerly GPL proxy for doing HA deployments is suddenly not open source. They can of course make this decision - it's their code to do with as they wish. But it's quite fucking rich for Monty to claim Oracle will close source MySQL, create a fork and company which then uses that fear to grow in popularity, only to do the very thing he accused oracle of doing: closing an open source product. Edit: Also, if you think only "enterprise" customers need database clusters that survive individual node's being offline, you're in for a big shock.