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Are there any forks yet? Is it harder or easier to fork a project like MySQL?

• riffraff 15y ago
  it seems there are quite a few: percona's XtraDB, OurDelta, MariaDB, Drizzle are the first that come to mind, plus HailDB that is a fork of the single InnoDB
  • lawnchair_larry 15y ago
    Percona was not really a fork. That was a performance patch for InnoDB from long before the acquisition.
• cookiecaper 15y ago
  I don't think there were any forks as a direct result of the Oracle acquisition, but that's probably because there are several other prominent forks already and many of the MySQL people were displeased with the state of affairs under Sun, let alone Oracle. So most of the exodus had already occurred. Check out MariaDB and Drizzle as starting points. :)
• gaius 15y ago
  Heh, the thing is, MySQL was always open source, and Monty et al have all quit, so Sun really payed $1Bn of their shareholder's money that they couldn't really afford and the only actual asset they got was the domain name mysql.com. And people wonder why they were bought by Oracle...
  • bruce511 15y ago
    "...only actual asset they got was the domain name mysql.com" Not true. Apart from the domain, they also got the MySql brand name. More importantly though than that they got the ability to sell MySql licenses. But wait you say, MySql is free... Well, yes and no. It's free for a limited subset of cases, for the rest you need a license. Now the code can be forked forever, but only Sun (now Oracle) can sell commercial licenses. MySql is a big deal for Oracle because they are effectively the only ones that can change the licensing conditions for MySql. All MySql forks have to be licensed under the GPL.