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>I believe they can't make this apply to previous versions, Correct. GPL gives all the recipients of the software sufficient rights to relicense it to anyone t
by Tuna-Fish 17y ago
>I believe they can't make this apply to previous versions,
Correct. GPL gives all the recipients of the software sufficient rights to relicense it to anyone they want under GPL. If sun wants to stop licensing MySQL under GPL to people, they can do so. After that, anyone else who has an older valid license can license it to you.
>so this may end up being a community-driven fork of MySQL.
There already is.