In his blog Does the GPL Matter? In a Word, Yes, Stephen
O'Grady makes the significant point that the dual-licensing model
has a major drawback:
Sun/MySQL can only include patches and contributions if they
fully own the copyright to those changes.
This gives forks like Drizzle, OurDelta, Percona and MariaDB a
major advantage over the Sun version: they can include the best
patches from all over. And it is clear that the momentum is
building.
In a follow-up blog, Stephen asks: "what would the implications be
if MySQL, of all projects, were forced to abandon the
dual-licensing model it had long championed?"
Thinking about this, there is something that really bothers
me:
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