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That's a bit of a tricky situation though:

* Part of how the original Mysql made money was by saying "ah, this is GPL'ed code, but if you'd like to include it in a proprietary work, we can sell you a license for that, since we own the copyright to the whole thing". He can't do that again.

* I'm not sure how often you can burn your bridges like that and have people happy about it.



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