Oracle buys Sun

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> Doesn't the US law have something to stop one company buying up another 
> where they are direct competitors? I hope Sun have/will agree to release 
> the MySQL rights to the whom ever has been working on it at Sun H/Q, 
> although I very much doubt this.

Most parts of MySQL are GPL'd. Anyone may use and extend the existing code 
that is under that license as long as they follow that license. As for 
"paid" employees, I don't know how they'd react if Oracle was to change 
licensing for "new" releases (go with the flow and continue to get paid -- 
or quit and work for free on GPL'd version).