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On Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:31:19 PM Reko Turja wrote:
> In that fictional world MySQL needed a fork and some GPL'd programs
> have been retroactively made completely closed source, forking denied
> after taking the issue into court...

I thought that Sun reversed that decision in 2008.  Can you give some 
examples?

There are two major GPL forks of MySQL right now:
http://drizzle.org/
and
http://mariadb.org/about/

MariaDB is the drop-in replacement for MySQL for people who want to get away 
from Oracle/MySQL AB.