[Previous entry: "LinkChecker"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Auburn keeps online classes virus-free"]

07/13/2001 Archived Entry: "NuSphere: MySQL.org needed because MySQL AB won't accept code"

NewsForge | NuSphere: MySQL.org needed because MySQL AB won't accept code

There's a new trademark dispute brewing in the Open Source community, with the founders of the MySQL database project, who operate MySQL.com, claiming MySQL support company NuSphere is trying to confuse users with its new MySQL.org site.

MySQL AB, the Swedish company that owns MySQL, issued a press release today (July 12) saying the MySQL community is "threatened by obscure .org Web site."

But the souring relationship between former partners MySQL AB and NuSphere, which makes several MySQL commercial products that include proprietary pieces, seems to have as much to do with a licensing disagreement, dueling lawsuits and who controls the MySQL code as it does with MySQL AB's annoyance over NuSphere's launch of MySQL.org.

Powered By Greymatter