The MySQL petition

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 23:13:29 EST 2010


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jeffry Smith <jsmith at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.

  Woah there nelly.  RedHat was just as bad in some cases.  Take a
look at the eCos situation from several years ago, specifically, the
'Red Hat eCos Public License'.

-- 
-- Thomas



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