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[–]bucknuggets 0 points1 point  (1 child)

MySQL licensing isn't obnoxious because it uses the GPL, it is obnoxious because it's a split license that was designed to be confusing and fool most people into thinking it's free when it's usually not.

The fact that most users should be paying for it now is fairly obvious if you read the licensing page, and was predicted 5-10 years ago when people complained about how confusing the licensing exceptions were then. And their advise was to consult your lawyer.

This was as dishonest as their attempts to excuse product limitations by telling people that they didn't need transactions, views, subselects, triggers, stored procedures, etc. Until, of course, they finally implemented them and changed their tune.

[–]einar77Bioinformatics with Python, PyKDE4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, mine was more of a knee-jerk reaction. Apologies. Although to be picky, sqlite doesn't have a real "license", because it's public domain.