Hi Henrik, Kristian,
On 03/09/2009, at 9:05 PM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Kristian
Nielsen<knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Davi Arnaut <Davi.Arnaut@xxxxxxx> writes:
I've been monitoring the maria-developers list and there are some
patches that we would like to gradually incorporate into our
branches. For a practical example, i would like to merge into 5.1
parts of this (http://tinyurl.com/q2ulgt) patch by Kristian.
Negotiations between Monty Program and Sun have started some time
ago on a
deal which would cover how Sun will get the rights it needs (ie.
SCA) to
include the MariaDB code into the MySQL code, and how Monty
Program will
receive compensation for giving these rights. As I understand it,
these
negotiations are however still in the early phase.
Apparently, this is moving nowhere :-(.
Davi, I'm sorry there has been no progress on this. We discussed
this again in
MariaDB, and would like to get things working better for now.
What Monty suggested was that it would work for Sun if we submit
specific
patches under a BSD-new license.
I realise that the http://tinyurl.com/q2ulgt patch request is now
so old that
it may be of no interest to you any longer. But if you have a
request for this
or other patches, please send them. All developers at Monty
Program have the
ability to submit their work to Sun at their own discretion, so we
should be
able to make this work on a low-overhead technician-to-technician
level.
Thanks for picking this up. I just wanted to confirm this is true and
we are happy to cooperate.
It's how it works with Drizzle.
However, I've blogged and otherwise written and spoken about this
before, it does not make me particularly happy.
Here's the layout:
- the GPL parts of the code are owned by Sun.
- BSD can be incorporated non-OSS derivatives.
And the consequenec of this is that Sun is able to perpetuate the
dual licensing model - a model which perhaps worked once upon a type
and did well, but which is definitely outdated, and only abused by
greedy salespeople.
