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MySQL Moves Closer to Closed
MySQL founder and developer Monty Widenius announced on his blog that the MySQL relational database management system would no longer be a free software project and will instead be under an Open Core model. Widenius pointed to an Oracle announcement last week, which detailed new commercial extensions for MySQL Enterprise Edition. |
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Comments (6)
MariaDB, PostgreSQL -- there are indeed options out there.
This will most likely be one of those moments FOSS folks will point back to when discussing copyright assignments required by corporations (rather than a community).
Quoting:isn't this what you get for requiring copyright assignment
Yes, this is exactly what you get.
Quoting:MariaDB, PostgreSQL -- there are indeed options out there.PostgreSQL main site, found at http://www.postgresql.org/
Advancing without MySQL's baggage...as ever before.
Someone, someday, will make a SQL engine that works on BerkeleyDB files.
NTTAWWT.
NTTAWWT.
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if monty widenius believes that open core is a bad for business, couldn't he have prevented that from happening by not requiring copyright assignment for contributions?
now we see what can happen. i believe this is part of what the warnings from the past were about.
having sold mysql, monty widenius in now in a position where he no longer controls the copyright, preventing mariadb from getting turned into an open core model as well. i wish him much success with that and hope that linux distributions start picking up mariadb soon...
greetings, eMBee.