{"id":2398,"date":"2011-09-16T06:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2011-09-16T06:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:43:43","slug":"mysql-no-longer-fully-open-source-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/mysql-no-longer-fully-open-source-database\/","title":{"rendered":"MySQL no longer fully open source database"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in case anybody missed it:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/MySQL\/entry\/new_commercial_extensions_for_mysql<\/a><\/p>\n

MySQL has long been an open source product, not an open source project…. and this really is the final nail in that.<\/p>\n

To me, this was expected, but it’s still sad to see it.<\/p>\n

I am very, very glad we have diverse copyright ownership in Drizzle so that this could not happen easily at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in case anybody missed it:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/MySQL\/entry\/new_commercial_extensions_for_mysql MySQL has long been an open source product, not an open source project…. and this really is the final nail in that. To me, this was expected, but it’s still sad to see it. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-CG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1183,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/building-mysql-cluster-on-windows-for-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":2398,"position":0},"title":"Building MySQL Cluster on Windows (for Windows)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-08-27","format":false,"excerpt":"You will need: CMake (at least 2.4.7) Bazaar (the newer the better - 1.6 was just released - at least use that) Gnu Bison Visual Studio (Express works, but I'm talking about 2005 here) ... and all this installed on a Microsoft Windows machine. ... and to hate yourself, you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "mysql"","block_context":{"text":"mysql","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/work-et-al\/mysql\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":696,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/an-apple-article-on-mysql-on-mac-os-x\/","url_meta":{"origin":2398,"position":1},"title":"An Apple article on MySQL on Mac OS X","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-05-10","format":false,"excerpt":"MySQL on Mac OS X: An Ideal Development Combination They got one bit a bit unclear. 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