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#1 m.oreilly

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 06:25 AM

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sun....20080116.1.xml

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"This announcement boosts our investments into the communities at the heart of innovation on the Internet and of enterprises that rely on technology as a competitive weapon,"
damn, buyin' the source stuff now...

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 06:51 AM

I wonder if MySQL will still be open source? :giggle:

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 07:15 AM

View Postbanj0, on Jan 17 2008, 01:51 AM, said:

I wonder if MySQL will still be open source? :giggle:
MySQL is dual-licensed under the GPL and a proprietary license. Sun might change the proprietary license, but they'll definitely also keep it under an open source license. Probably GPL, maybe CDDL.

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 07:22 AM

That's good to know.

This may bring up an interesting conversation---am I the only one that had never heard of "copyleft" until a month or two ago? It's similar to a "copyright" but in the inverse. Basically, it means that any piece of software that has been "copylefted" must remain open-source. There's no way I could explain it better than in the wiki: Copyleft.

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Posted 17 January 2008 - 07:50 AM

looked at that. i wonder...




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