On Thursday 27 October 2005 12:22, Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > Michael J. Segel wrote: > > I guess you could say that this is a good thing if you're looking at > > using Derby vs MySQL. Which is why MySQL can be released under multiple > > licensing types. GPL affords certain protections to the author, or rather > > to the author's intentions. > > GPL has absolutly nothing to do with why MySQL can be released under > multiple licenses. > > MySQL AB can release MySQL under multiple licenses because they are the > sole owner of the copyright on the code and for Innodb (at least) they > have licenced that code from the copyright holder. Of course now the > copyright holder for the Innodb code is Oracle, which raises all sorts > of interesting possibilities. > > Dan. Sigh.
Gee as the owner of the IP I would hope that MySQL could license their code as they saw fit. ;-) Did you actually read the GPL? -- Michael Segel Principal MSCC (312) 952-8175
