Published at LXer:
Sun Microsystems has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary license, following widespread criticism from the open source community. "MySQL Server is and will always remain fully functional and open source," said Kaj Arno, MySQL's vice president of community relations, in a statement released on his Web site on Wednedsday. "So will the MySQL Connectors, and so will the main storage engines we ship."
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