MySQL servers requiring clients be GPL [LWN.net]

MySQL servers requiring clients be GPL

Posted May 15, 2014 17:32 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: MySQL servers requiring clients be GPL by pricechild
Parent article: Collaborative GPL enforcement

What if you claim to support MariaDB and say "if it works with MySQL, lucky you"?

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MySQL servers requiring clients be GPL

Posted May 18, 2014 22:10 UTC (Sun) by eean (subscriber, #50420) [Link] (1 responses)

Isn't MariaDB a fork of mysql? So Oracle is a copyright holder of MariaDB. (I would be happy to be wrong...)

MySQL servers requiring clients be GPL

Posted May 19, 2014 3:21 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Oracle would threaten a GPL suit to get them to buy a commercial license, not force GPL proliferation. From that angle, saying you work with MariaDB should remove the larger part of the looming threat.