Is InnoDB dead?

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Hi,

As InnoDB has been acquired by Oracle, it that means the future version
of MySQL will not ship with InnoDB?

Will it cause licensing problem if I still use InnoDB after a few years
later?

Thanks..

[Jerry Stuckle]

[email][email protected][/email] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As InnoDB has been acquired by Oracle, it that means the future version
> of MySQL will not ship with InnoDB?
>
> Will it cause licensing problem if I still use InnoDB after a few years
> later?
>
> Thanks..
>

No announcement has been made one way or the other. Anything else would be pure
speculation.

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[Axel Schwenke]

[email][email protected][/email] wrote:

>
> As InnoDB has been acquired by Oracle, it that means the future version
> of MySQL will not ship with InnoDB?
>
> Will it cause licensing problem if I still use InnoDB after a few years
> later?

The current InnoDB source code is licensed under the GPL. So even if
Oracle decides to release future versions of InnoDB under a commercial
license only, the community still has the current sources available.

More thoughts on this topic:
[url]http://sql-info.de/mysql/oracle-acquires-innodb.html[/url]


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[Heikki Tuuri]

Hi!

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> Hi,

InnoDB is not dead. As you see from our website, Oracle/Innobase was chosen
as a MySQL AB Partner of the Year 2006 [url]http://www.innodb.com/index.php[/url]. We
are hiring more top developers to development of InnoDB:
[url]http://www.innodb.com/jobs.php[/url].

> As InnoDB has been acquired by Oracle, it that means the future version
> of MySQL will not ship with InnoDB?

I have not heard of any such plans from MySQL AB. Since current versions of
both MySQL and InnoDB are under the GPL, anyone can release a MySQL distro
that includes InnoDB. InnoDB cannot really be removed from under MySQL
currently.

> Will it cause licensing problem if I still use InnoDB after a few years
> later?

The OEM agreement between MySQL AB and Innobase Oy was extended in March
2006. Though no one can guarantee what happens in the very long run.
Companies can change the license conditions of future open source product
versions, companies can get acquired, and so on.

> Thanks..

Best regards,

Heikki

Oracle Corp./Innobase Oy
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