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I'm not understanding what the community has gained from this, or what would be gained if the same thing happened to other projects like MySQL. You could fork

• zacharypinter 16y ago
  It removes any vague sense of the main corporate sponsor being in charge.
• bad_user 16y ago
  MySQL has the flaw that all dual-licensed projects have; trademark is owned by a for-profit, all copyright is owned by a for-profit -- Oracle is the only one who can sell commercial licenses, Oracle has the privilege to sell commercial support as the owner of the only branch/fork of MySQL that is called "MySQL", all other forks will be forever called MySQL-forks, unless some alternative fork emerges that's so groundbreaking that it will make MySQL irrelevant (or all channels of distribution, like Linux distros, align to stop distribution of MySQL). Basically, as a project, MySQL is mature and has enough clout that it might never exist enough incentive for forks to gain market-share, ever. That's one of the reasons why I switched to PostgreSQL -- BSD-like license, trademark owned by a nonprofit, has much better popularity and support than all MySQL-forks combined.