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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:32:18 +0200 |
David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> As if you ever were impressed by facts.
>
> <URL:http://www.linuxbusinessweek.com/story/34553.htm>
Oh boy. Go and do some research. The open sourcing of Gemini was
a "non-issue" for NuSphere and it was acctually "almost done" before
the clash. I'll give you a sort of hint for the search...
<quote>
Johnston says at the heart of the issue is a pending lawsuit in
which the two companies are suing each other over their changing
relationship and trademark issues.
Neither side would talk in great detail about the pending lawsuits,
but Johnston says NuSphere hasn't been allowed to participate
in the existing community at MySQL AB's MySQL.com.
"We tried to submit changes [to the MySQL code] under the GPL to
that site, and they were refused on a commercial basis, not on a
technical basis," Johnston adds. "The code works fine, and we
ship it as part of our GPL version of MySQL ... but they are not
available from MySQL.com, because they won't accept anything they
don't own the copyright to."
[...]
MySQL AB's Mickos, on the phone from Finland, says the MySQL code,
while being Open Source, has always been created almost entirely by
project founders Michael "Monty" Widenius and David Axmark.
"It has never been a 'bazaar' product like in The Cathedral and
the Bazaar," Mickos says. "It's not a product everybody has
contributed to, and that never was the intention.
"Monty has never accepted code contributions from other people,"
Mickos adds. "If he has gotten something [from someone else], they
have been donations to him, and he rewrites them, but that's minor.
There never has been a situation where anybody could freely
contribute code."
[...]
Johnston says the two companies worked together on a press release
about Gemini being part of version 4 of MySQL, but NuSphere is still
waiting for that code to be released. "We checked the Gemini code
into that source tree, but that source tree hasn't left the gate
yet," he says. "Now they've refused our ability to contribute Gemini
at all. So that's an interesting claim."
</quote>
Heck, the entire article can be found here:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/07/12/2142237
(NuSphere: MySQL.org needed because MySQL AB won't accept code)
Kinda ironically,
<quote>
Johnston says the relationship between the two companies has changed
over the past couple of months, as MySQL AB has accepted venture
capital and brought in a new CEO.
</quote>
See the parallels? ;-)
regards,
alexander.
P.S.
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03194.html
http://www.nusphere.com/releases/2002/022702_malert.htm
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, (continued)
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/08
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/07
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
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