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I can't read pass "developed by Oracle". It is factually not true. Unless there's so much code change after the acquisition that there's no single trace of the original open source version of MySQL left in there.

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MySQL always was primarily developed by an commercial entity. And always gave an license out under GPL (i believe very first used some other license as GPL wasn't known back then ...) Oracle took over the development team (lots of pre-acquisition staff included) and legal rights to all of that.

(Disclaimer: I started at independent MySQL AB more than ten years ago and now wear an Oracle badge, after wearing Sun for a while)

Maybe it's legal talk that I don't understand, but the fact that Oracle owns the majority of the dev team today, doesn't mean Oracle developed MySQL. Because at the time MySQL was "developed", Oracle didn't own MySQL, nor did Oracle "own" the developers.

Oracle still develops and to a notable number the same people. Also Oracle steered 8.0 which was a big change to internals. Anyways won't argue about single words.

"Developed" is not used in the past tense here.

Think "Currently developed by Oracle".

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