On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Mr. Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com> wrote:
3. Does a change in licence type apply to already deployed products? For instance, if Oracle changes the MySQL licence, will it affect the already running instances? Some light on these will be appreciated
No... it won't affect already running instances ... You cannot change licenses retro-actively, as a license is effectively a software contract. If oracle were to change the license of MySQL to a commercial one say on the 24th of April 2009 - that license will apply to the MySQL source code only from that point of time. The software was open-source before that date -- which leaves the door open for other open source developers to fork MySQL in an open-source flavour. Ashok