[mdlug] Open source MySQL - MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns M ySQL

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> Personally, I have a problem with Monty selling MySQL ... because
>> other people who contributed to the source code didn't get distributions
>> from the big buyout.  Kind of a "bait and switch" if you ask me.
> 
> No, bait-and-switch there at all.  The license was X - there
> plain-as-day published on the Internet - they contributed code, the
> license X allows Monty to sell MySQL (in this fashion).
> 
> Where is the switch?

They weren't agreeing to contribute to a proprietarized project.