From: Date: September 5 2005 11:49pm
Subject: Re: SCO issue
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  Here is the official link: 
http://www.sco.com/products/openserver6/mysql.html

SCO states that they will distribute MySQL with a commercial license.
According to this they do not plan to stick with GPL...

Bye
Bgs

Alec.Cawley@stripped wrote:
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> Mirza <mirza@stripped> wrote on 05/09/2005 14:31:12:
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>><pissed>
>>I would like someone from MySQL AB to clarify issue with SCO asap. I 
>>wouldn't like to use technologies for my business that later could be 
>>used against me (in legal sense). Does MySQL AB understand that it helps 
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>>funding their legal cases against us (GPL users) ? If someone feels OK 
>>with SCO partnership, good luck, but (being long time MySQL user and 
>>alpha bug reporter) I would switch to Embedded PostgreSQL myself and 
>>encourage other people to do the same. I use _tons_ of GPL software so 
>>should I help funding of my own annoyance (albeit poorly supported with 
>>facts) ?
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> All the press releases I have seen appear to originate from SCO. There is 
> not, in any of them, any suggestion that money has passed or will pass 
> from MySQL to SCO. SCO has for a long time been one of the many varieties 
> of Unix that MySQL supports. MySQL cannot stop SCO from distributing their 
> product (hypocritically) under the GPL. On the other hand, if they allow 
> SCO to include "offical" releases of MySQL, they may get some support 
> customers - which is where they earn their real income. The press blurbs 
> are essentially saying that SCO resellers will market MySQL Network - to 
> the benefit of MySQL. If there is any money flow, I would have thought it 
> would be more likely to be the other way: SCO paying MySQL to ensure that 
> one of the premier Unix applications remains supported on their platform.
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> Of course, MySQL may say otherwise, but I think this is a piece of SCO 
> hype intended to imply MySQL support of SCO when all they are really doing 
> is supporting their own product on whatever platform their customers may 
> choose - even when that platform is marketed by a company who many of us 
> find totally repulsive. If you let yourself be hyped into dropping MySQL, 
> you will be harming a company that is, in my opinion, a model of how to 
> provide full commercial quality software (or better) with an Open Source 
> licence, while not (I think) harming SCO in any way.
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>         Alec Cawley
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