Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Chris Travers wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>>> They do not "own" MaxDB. They license it, just like Innodb.
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>> Damn, do they ever have alot of "loose ends" ... what part, exactly,
>> constitutes "MySQL" vs third party add ons? :)
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> If MaxDB, InnoDB, and DBD engines are all licensed, then they have problems.

Thank god our biggest headaches have been "can we include readline, since
its GPL?" and "we need to re-write ARC *just in case* IBM decides to
enforce their patent" :)"

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