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0 pointsstephenr1y ago0 comments

It's a weird scenario where a bunch of people bemoaned Oracle owning MySQL (hence MariaDB exists), and yet Oracle have maintained and allowed MySQL to see huge improvements, and they include their sql proxy under GPL as well.

As a weird twist of coincidence and irony, MariaDB's sql proxy is BSL only.

I don't think either license is a reason to use/not use the respective DB system (HAproxy exists) but it's always funny to me how the "we must keep it open" group did exactly what they accused Oracle of planning to do.

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re-thc1y ago· 1 in thread

> and yet Oracle have maintained and allowed MySQL to see huge improvements

In the latest twist Oracle is adding things other Heatwave and not MySQL i.e. not open source.

It's an ever-changing situation.

> (hence MariaDB exists)

That's sort of the old take. Lots of new features aren't compatible on both sides. MariaDB has diverged. It just hasn't gained enough traction for those things to matter.

stephenrOP1y ago

> That's sort of the old take. Lots of new features aren't compatible on both sides.

If by "the old take" you mean "the stated reason they created the fork" then sure. I guess everyone's a revisionist when it's convenient.

packetlost1y ago

Oracle is kind of a shitty company to deal with, but they seem to be doing relatively well with open source these days.

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