Posts by santec 5 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Aug 2013
Nate, InnoDB is GPL, like the rest of the server - which is still used as MariaDB's codebase: they merge most Oracle's development into their trees.
However, MariaDB uses XtraDB, which is an InnoDB's fork mantained by Percona. It has more bugfixes and is more performant.
@Powerlord, yes but we shouldn't confuse companies with foundations. A foundation (like Linux Foundation, MariaDB Foundation, Apache Foundation, etc... and in practice, GNU too) is an organization which ensures that the software will always be free (free software license, and patent-free). A company makes its exclusive interests, and could stop releasing its software as open source in any moment. I'm not saying that companies are bad, but in many cases their interests have nothing to do with mine - that's obvious, as I don't work for them.
Also, please note that in some cases copyright assignment is not required. For example, if you don't like MariaDB Foundation's copyright assignment agreement, or if you don't trust them for any reason, you can release your code with a BSD license.
The article says:
"MariaDB is being positioned as providing a bridge between relational data types and NoSQL data stores, with connectors already in place for Cassandra and MongoDB"
While I love MariaDB and I agree it can connect to some NoSQL products (now: Cassandra, Sphinx and the ability to use InnoDB via SOcketHandler; in the future: several text files, LevelDB) I never found information about MariaDB+MongoDB. Even a search in MariaDB documentation didn't help. May this possibly be a mistake?
I dont think that someone cares if you hate or love Monty, unsell you personally know him (in which case, your feelings about him should concern you and Monty, but not The Register).
Talking about his past errors is more interesting, but the Foundation now exists, so he CAN'T repeate those errors.
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