It feels like Monty wants to be able to have his cake (the money he made from selling MySQL to Sun) and eat it too (continue to make money selling some sort of MySQL license). If MySQL was BSD-licensed instead of GPL, presumably he'd be able to pursue an "open-core" model where he could sell proprietary extensions to MySQL.
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It feels like Monty wants to be able to have his cake (the money he made from selling MySQL to Sun) and eat it too (continue to make money selling some sort of MySQL license). If MySQL was BSD-licensed instead of GPL, presumably he'd be able to pursue an "open-core" model where he could sell proprietary extensions to MySQL.
http://ostatic.com/blog/oracle-mysql-and-the-gpl-dont-take-m...