Good questions and discussion. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:00 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@gmail.com> wrote:
The content in that URL states that MPAB employees have shared copyright on their contributions. I assume that MPAB has shared copyright on all contributions. Couldn't someone buy MPAB to get shard copyright to all contributions and the MariaDB trademarks?
I don't question your intent but I don't see how MPAB cannot be sold or would not have value.
Timour already gave a good answer, so just to add. Regarding the code it's not a big deal. Owning copyright to a patch/delta against MySQL cannot be very interesting. Regarding trademarks you make a valid point though. If MariaDB trademark was sold, I don't know if I have the energy to start over with yet another name. What is absent from Monty's answer is that we are also doing our best in opening up the project so that long term it shouldn't matter what happens to MPAB. To get there, we need to get many more contributors from many more companies. henrik -- email: henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi tel: +358-40-5697354 www: www.avoinelama.fi/~hingo book: www.openlife.cc