Note. The following is my own opinion. Yes, I mention my
employer. But keep in mind that I'm just writing my own opinion
about my employer.
Have you read this?
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html
People who do what the GPL tries to prevent (e.g., closed source
forks of open source projects) wind up injuring only
themselves
Eric, I don't think you understand what the GNU GPL represents.
It protects us from corporations absorbing the project into
itself. If MySQL the software was licensed under the BSD license,
MySQL the company would have no reason to contribute back to the
original source.
After a while, MySQL the …
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