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future versions / developments could disappear (or be licensed as closed source). I imagine that is what is meant.
by ErrantX 17y ago
future versions / developments could disappear (or be licensed as closed source).
I imagine that is what is meant.
- coffeemug 17y agoYou cannot relicense GPL as closed source (i.e. you could stop licensing the code to all parties that want an exclusive, but you can't "close" the existing branches and you can't prevent forks). The fact that the core team can stop development is a much more concrete problem. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's too valuable for too many people. Percona is patching MySQL, along with Google, Facebook, Monty's MariaDB company, etc. If anything, MySQL is more alive than ever before.
- ErrantX 17y agoWell the other guy was talking about future updates/changes. Which can completely be license differently. Oracle could make some changes and release it under Foo license tomorrow if they wanted.