Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On 10/16/2005 5:25 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 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? :)
>>
>> 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" :)"

You mean "their eventually someday to be patent".


Jan

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