Bajo la licencia GPL el “dueño” del software en este caso goza de privilegios especiales como utilizar codigo propietario en el producto. Stallman le escribió a la Unión Europea diciendo lo siguiente:

MySQL uses the parallel licensing approach to generate revenue to continue the FLOSS development of the software. If Oracle acquired MySQL, it would then be the only entity able to release the code other than under the GPL…. As only the original rights holder can sell commercial licenses, no new forked version of the code will have the ability to practice the parallel licensing approach, and will not easily generate the resources to support continued development of the MySQL platform.

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