MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
►https://blog.mariadb.org/mysql-man-pages-silently-relicensed-away-from-gpl
It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been relicensed. The change was made rather silently going from MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.5.31. This affects all pages in the man/ directory of the source code.
#mysql #opensource #gpl
ça serait juste un bug, sur le point d’être corrigé
▻http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69512
Tu le crois si tu veux
MySQL mistake is a wake-up call on open source ownership
▻http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/mysql-mistake-wake-call-open-source-ownership-221164
All the same, the incident was a wake-up call to many. Although there’s no reason why they should, and they have promised not to do so, Oracle could change the license for MySQL, or indeed any of the open source projects they own, at any time without notice. They are able to do this since, unique among the rest of the open source community around each project, they are not themselves bound by the open source license.