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I feel for Monty in that his "baby" is now under the control of some other entity. A couple of observations: a) All of MySQL is currently available under the

I feel for Monty in that his "baby" is now under the control of some other entity. A couple of observations: a) All of MySQL is currently available under the GPL, so any pure open source business model can take that and fork it and have the big fun. b) It seems like all of the concern is Monty wanting to wrestle back control so he's assured of a non-"pure" open source business model (which MySQL used to generate revenue in the past. Specifically, licensing MySQL under a comercial, non-GPLed, license). So what does this say about pure open source business models? Are they impossible? Do you always have to have some part that is not open source or a way to license it that way?

lucumo 17y ago
> a) All of MySQL is currently available under the GPL, so any pure open source business model can take that and fork it and have the big fun. While this isn't Monty's concern, it is mine. I think it's quite possible to kill a GPL project. Not in a lawyery sense, but strictly by mismanagement. Maintaining a project like MySQL seems a rather big undertaking. I doubt anyone will take it if Oracle doesn't completely abandon it. That's a lot of leeway to just screw it up... > b) It seems like all of the concern is Monty wanting to wrestle back control so he's assured of a non-"pure" open source business model (which MySQL used to generate revenue in the past. Specifically, licensing MySQL under a comercial, non-GPLed, license). I'm generally not a fan of assigning someone an "evil" motive when other explanations do. It seems Monty is mostly concerned with people that have bought an enterprise license for MySQL, so they don't have to release their own source code when distributing binaries. Forks don't help these people.