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Mårten Mickos on GPLv3

, July 23, 2007 @ 12:10 pm ET

I’m at Ubuntu Live today in Portland, Oregon, with my colleague Jay Lyman. Jay and I both live in Portland, making this the shortest conference trip of the year, traffic permitting. The conference takes place just prior to OSCON in the same venue, produced by O’Reilly Media.

MySQL AB CEO Mårten Mickos just finished a keynote this morning. During the Q&A portion following his talk, an audience member inquired about MySQL’s potential adoption of the GPLv3. The answer? “I think it very well might happen,” said Mickos. He went on to discuss the successes of the GPLv2 and the point that even if it takes three to five years for MySQL to embrace the GPLv3, a waiting period isn’t a big deal. Mickos sees no benefit in rushing the process to adopt the new license as the MySQL project is successful today with the GPLv2. He had positive things to say about the changes in GPLv3, including the approach to international copyrights.

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  1. University Update - Open Source - Mårten Mickos on GPLv3 says:
    July 23, 2007 at 2:48 pm

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  2. Log Buffer #55: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs : Ardent Performance Computing says:
    July 27, 2007 at 11:10 am

    [...] There were a number of pre-conference events. Robert Treat gave the low-down on the PostgreSQL party and Joshua Drake did the same. And Matt Asay from CNET talked about Tim O’Reilly’s keynote at the Ubuntu Live Conference just ahead of OSCON – where Jay Pipes snapped a pic of MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos’ competitive side – who also delivered a keynote at Ubuntu. Raven Zachary reviews Martin’s take on MySQL adoption of the GPLv3. [...]

  3. 451 CAOS Theory » SugarCRM adopts GPLv3 says:
    May 28, 2008 at 1:32 am

    [...] July 25, 2007 @ 2:06 pm ET While MySQL AB CEO Mickos is in no hurry to adopt the GPLv3 (see blog post), SugarCRM just announced (press release) at OSBC 2007 that it would adopting the GPLv3 as a [...]