Jonathan Schwartz Has the Last Word on MySQL

"It is perhaps fitting that the last word on the recent MySQL licensing row should belong to Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz. In a twitter Q&A with Web 2.0 Expo attendees, courtesy of Tim O'Reilly, he states that:

"'we have no plans whatever of 'hiding the ball,' of keeping any technology from the community. Everything Sun delivers will be freely available, via a free and open license (either GPL, LGPL or Mozilla/CDDL), to the community..."

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