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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 11:38 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> 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.

Yes, they were.  Check the license.