The MySQL petition

Jeffry Smith jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jan 6 13:38:13 EST 2010


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Jeffry Smith <jsmith at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign
>> copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work
>> to a company to run their business without compensation.
>
>  What, you don't like being an unpaid employee of MySQL?
>
Seems that no one else does either.  Amazing how Red Hat can get all
those folks to contribute, but MySQL can't.  Oh, right - Red Hat GPLs
their code, and doesn't (as far as I know) require you to assign
copyright to them.  Amazing how people respond when they feel they're
being treated fairly.

jeff



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