On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Andy <angelf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Not true. > > As a condition of getting European Commission's approval of its acquisition > of Sun/MySQL, Oracle had to agree to continue the GPL release. > > And there are non-Oracle upgrades from Google, facebook, Percona, etc. So no > one is beholden to Oracle.
It is true. The EU commitments are entirely independent of the licencing. Also note that the commitments (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/042364) are pretty loosely worded. For example, Oracle would be fulfilling them if they released a new Enterprise version with 1000 new features, and a corresponding community version with just one of those features. And after 5 years (nearer to 4 now I guess), those commitments get thrown away entirely. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
