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[Arjen Lentz <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Monty, all

On 08/10/2009, at 5:24 AM, Michael Widenius wrote:
> It would be nice if Sun also could work with BSD, but we have learned
> the hard way that they don't accept code under the BSD license :(

You mean Sun/MySQL then, because for Drizzle, Sun does work with BSD  
code.
That's actually a nuisance to me since it allows them to dual-license  
Drizzle, which I reckon is a really bad idea - best if that were not  
possible.


> Anyway, we come up with a workaround to safely be able to donate code
> to Sun, so now we can finally start to submit them some bug fixes.


Seems to me like they're sidelining themselves.


Cheers,
Arjen.
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