Re: Why facebook used mysql ?

On 11/9/2010 10:45 AM, Andy wrote:
> As a condition of getting European Commission's approval of its acquisition of Sun/MySQL, Oracle had to agree to
continuethe GPL release. 

In case anyone is interested in what specifically Oracle agreed to do,
this is the text
from the decision (they agreed to do the following for 5 years
post-deal-closing) :

"Commitment to enhance MySQL in the future under the GPL. Oracle shall
continue to
enhance MySQL and make subsequent versions of MySQL, including Version 6,
available under the GPL. Oracle will not release any new, enhanced
version of MySQL
Enterprise Edition without contemporaneously releasing a new, also
enhanced version
of MySQL Community Edition licensed under the GPL. Oracle shall continue
to make
the source code of all versions of MySQL Community Edition publicly
available at no
charge."