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[Arjen Lentz <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Monty

On 08/10/2009, at 6:52 PM, Michael Widenius wrote:
> Arjen> 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 :(
>
> Arjen> You mean Sun/MySQL then, because for Drizzle, Sun does work  
> with BSD
> Arjen> code.
>
> Arjen> That's actually a nuisance to me since it allows them to dual- 
> license
> Arjen> Drizzle, which I reckon is a really bad idea - best if that  
> were not
> Arjen> possible.
>
> As far as I know, they have also accepted code under the GPL to
> Drizzle, so that makes it impossible to dual license.

Yea but is that code also copyright-assigned, or not?
If it's also copyright-assigned, the dual licensing still flies for Sun.


> Anyway, I disagree strongly that it would be in any way bad for anyone
> to do dual-licensing of GPL code;  Dual licensing gives the users more
> freedom, not less;  It allows people that could not otherwise work
> with the code (because of restrictions in their code base) to still
> get access to the code under terms that can accept.
>
> Anyway, I think we two should stop the discussion about Dual licensing
> as we are clearly off different opinions of the importance of it for
> the future.  It's of course all right to be of different opinions, but
> I don't think it brings value to this email list if we continue to
> discuss it here;  It's better to continue the discussion in person
> next time we meet.


Ack - perhaps add cough medicin.

I will say though that the 10x vs 2x revenue argument holds no weight  
for me personally: to me, something that makes more profit is not  
intrinsically better (nor is a company that makes more money by  
definition more successful in my eyes). My criteria for better and  
successful are viewed from the client and community perspective. I  
want to see clients pay what *they* perceive as a fair price for a  
result they like, and talk well of the product and its vendor.


Cheers,
Arjen.
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