MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL ...

Code that Microsoft made available under a public licence earlier this year will be in the next production release of the open-source database MySQL MySQL developers have used Microsoft source ...

MySQL, fellow open-source database company Sleepycat and programming component maker Trolltech employ a strategy under which they make their software available both under an open-source license ...

YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code ...

This does not, as some have said, make mySQL Enterprise closed source. The code split between mySQL Community and mySQL Enterprise happened back in August, before Sun entered the picture.

I emailed Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, about the change and he stressed what MySQL's FAQ already notes: This is not crippleware:. The open source edition is the code base the commercial edition is ...

Contributor agreements grease the funding wheels of many open source projects, but they can also endanger a project's health and stability. Simon Phipps uses the Oracle-MySQL scare to illustrate.

It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL. Doubtless, the ...

A Chinese software vendor has brushed aside speculation that its enterprise product, which uses code from Oracle Corp’s MySQL open-source relational database management system, faces the risk of ...