I believe he's replying directly to the original post. I'm not necessarily thrilled at their move either (though I understand it completely) because the automa

I believe he's replying directly to the original post. I'm not necessarily thrilled at their move either (though I understand it completely) because the automatic expectation is that they're going to dilute the free product and focus only on the paid product. Other commenters have hashed out examples dealing with MySQL and Wordpress so I won't bother restating them. That said, being GPL or not wouldn't matter because they have the right to relicense their code under whatever terms they like. There's nothing that stops the owner of the code to put out a commercially licensed release along side a GPL version. Example: http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/ http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/