3 ms·
MySQL always was primarily developed by an commercial entity. And always gave an license out under GPL (i believe very first used some other license as GPL wasn
by johannes1234321 5y ago
MySQL always was primarily developed by an commercial entity. And always gave an license out under GPL (i believe very first used some other license as GPL wasn't known back then ...) Oracle took over the development team (lots of pre-acquisition staff included) and legal rights to all of that.
(Disclaimer: I started at independent MySQL AB more than ten years ago and now wear an Oracle badge, after wearing Sun for a while)
- fredliu 5y agoMaybe it's legal talk that I don't understand, but the fact that Oracle owns the majority of the dev team today, doesn't mean Oracle developed MySQL. Because at the time MySQL was "developed", Oracle didn't own MySQL, nor did Oracle "own" the developers.
- johannes1234321 5y agoOracle still develops and to a notable number the same people. Also Oracle steered 8.0 which was a big change to internals. Anyways won't argue about single words.
- quesera 5y ago"Developed" is not used in the past tense here. Think "Currently developed by Oracle".