Even the $10,000 cluster edition (which is based on NDB) is GPL.
So clearly they can not be selling software, I can only assume these are prices for support, not for software.
Have they taken down download links? Removed source code?
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Re: MySQL Editions
#12Judging by the comments people are confused. The free, GPL edition of MySQL ("MySQL Community Server") is still what you've always had. These are the commercially licensed products. Oracle's shifted around some features and pricing on support plans and such, but if you're not a commercial customer, nothing's changed for you.
What's the difference between community and commercial customers, aside from support? Is InnoDB a feature? Why would MyISAM support be free but InnoDB support have a yearly fee?
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#13Wow, yeah hello PostgreSQL
Yeah, and also Drizzle, MariaDB and Percona Server.
Re: MySQL Editions
#14Judging by the comments people are confused. The free, GPL edition of MySQL ("MySQL Community Server") is still what you've always had. These are the commercially licensed products. Oracle's shifted around some features and pricing on support plans and such, but if you're not a commercial customer, nothing's changed for you.
What's the difference between community and commercial customers, aside from support? Is InnoDB a feature? Why would MyISAM support be free but InnoDB support have a yearly fee?
MySQL is dual-licensed. If you download the community server, it's GPL licensed. If you want to distribute MySQL as part of your application, then your application may have to be GPL licensed as well, which is often undesirable. ISVs and others that need to distribute MySQL can buy one of the commercial editions to get it under a non-GPL license.
If you're worried about the future, Oracle agreed to maintain the dual-licensing strategy until at least 2015 as part of the EU negotiations before acquiring Sun.
Re: MySQL Editions
#15Judging by the comments people are confused. The free, GPL edition of MySQL ("MySQL Community Server") is still what you've always had. These are the commercially licensed products. Oracle's shifted around some features and pricing on support plans and such, but if you're not a commercial customer, nothing's changed for you.
What's the difference between community and commercial customers, aside from support? Is InnoDB a feature? Why would MyISAM support be free but InnoDB support have a yearly fee?
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#16Even the $10,000 cluster edition (which is based on NDB) is GPL. So clearly they can not be selling software, I can only assume these are prices for support, not for software. Have they taken down download links? Removed source code?
You are making the assumption that the GPL is appropriate for everyone that will use MySQL, which is incorrect. ISVs and other businesses that want to distribute MySQL as part of an application can buy it from Oracle with a non-GPL license so they don't have to GPL license what they're selling too.
Re: MySQL Editions
#17Judging by the comments people are confused. The free, GPL edition of MySQL ("MySQL Community Server") is still what you've always had. These are the commercially licensed products. Oracle's shifted around some features and pricing on support plans and such, but if you're not a commercial customer, nothing's changed for you.
What's the difference between community and commercial customers, aside from support? Is InnoDB a feature? Why would MyISAM support be free but InnoDB support have a yearly fee?
Ah ok, paying to get it under a non-GPL license makes sense.
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#18Even the $10,000 cluster edition (which is based on NDB) is GPL. So clearly they can not be selling software, I can only assume these are prices for support, not for software. Have they taken down download links? Removed source code?
GPL doesn’t mean you can’t sell it; it means you have to provide source and allow derivative products within the constraints of the license.
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#20Wow, yeah hello PostgreSQL
I think the reason you are being downvoted is that you are comparing PostgreSQL with the commercial version of MySQL. A better comparison would be between EnterpriseDB and the commercial version of MySQL.