On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Henrik Ingo<henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi> wrote:
Hi Giuseppe
I'm cross-posting to maria-discuss since this is now a non-technical discussion. Please remove maria-developers when replying.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Giuseppe Maxia<g.maxia@gmail.com> wrote:
Why it's perfectly OK that MariaDB gets MySQL bugfixes for free and instead it's a rip off if MySQL gets MariaDB bug fixes?
Of course, all of the MariaDB source code is available as GPL, just like for MySQL. Sun is not prohibited from using it under the GPL, just like we are using MySQL code.
I look forward to using improvements published by MariaDB.
MariaDB requires the same kind of legal grants that Sun asks, and the FAQ even states "The MCA is based on Sun's Contributor Agreement. We think it is one of the best contributor agreements around! " http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MCA_FAQ
We've made some adjustments, but yes, apparently it is one of the best contributor agreements around, the community seems to think. That's why we use it.
Will MariaDB incorporate BSD-licensed features published by the community? -- Mark Callaghan mdcallag@gmail.com