Back to the future for MySQL
April 23, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 7 months, 1 week ago
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As I'm occasionally reminded, MySQL didn't start out as open source. In fact, MySQL's original license was very similar to what it is trying to achieve today: Free for noncommercial use, but not-so-free for commercial use. It didn't decide to go open source (GPL) until 1999.