MySQL Reverses Decision on Close Source

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krow

on Tuesday May 06 2008, @04:13PM

krow writes "I am very happy to be announcing that MySQL will be forgoing close sourcing portions of the MySQL Server. Kaj has the official statement in his blog. No portion of the server of the sever will be closed source including backup, encryption, or any storage engines we ship. To quote Kaj "the encryption and compression backup features will be open source". This is a change from what was previously posted here on Slashdot. I've posted some additional thoughts on my own blog concerning how we keep open source from becoming crippleware. Word has it that we will also have a panel at this year's OSCON discussing this relevant topic. Contrary to the previous Slashdot post, this shows Sun's continued commitment to Open Source."
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ZFS next? (Score:1)

by axehind (518047) writes:

This is great to see! Hopefully Sun will show even more commitment to Open Source by GPLing ZFS.

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ZFS next? (Score:1)