I’m at Ubuntu
Live today in Portland, Oregon, with my colleague Jay Lyman.
Jay and I both live in Portland, making this the shortest
conference trip of the year, traffic permitting. The conference
takes place just prior to OSCON in the same venue, produced by O’Reilly
Media.
MySQL AB CEO Mårten Mickos just finished a keynote this morning.
During the Q&A portion following his talk, an audience member
inquired about MySQL’s potential adoption of the GPLv3. The
answer? “I think it very well might happen,” said Mickos. He went
on to discuss the successes of the GPLv2 and the point that even
if it takes three to five years for MySQL to embrace the GPLv3, a
waiting period isn’t a big deal. Mickos sees no benefit in
rushing the process to adopt the new license as the MySQL project
is successful today …
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