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[Chris Rees]

On 16 June 2011 17:47, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:31:19 PM Reko Turja wrote:
>> In that fictional world MySQL needed a fork and some GPL'd programs
>> have been retroactively made completely closed source, forking denied
>> after taking the issue into court...
>
> I thought that Sun reversed that decision in 2008.  Can you give some
> examples?
>
> There are two major GPL forks of MySQL right now:
> http://drizzle.org/
> and
> http://mariadb.org/about/
>
> MariaDB is the drop-in replacement for MySQL for people who want to get away
> from Oracle/MySQL AB.

This thread appears to have drifted off topic.

Perhaps move to chat?

Chris