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Sanddancer on July 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Aurora Now Available

There's a distinct possibility that it's not based on MySQL at all. From their prior discussions, this looks like a clean implementation that just uses its API, so even if MySQL were AGPLed, Amazon wouldn't need to release anything.

Zikes on July 28, 2015 [–]

But thanks to recent rulings [1], APIs are still copyrightable and fall under the same license.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/google-oracle-jav...

sneak on July 28, 2015 | [–]

I believe parent is using "API" in the "wire protocol" sense, not the "intra-process programming interface" sense.

Those have not been deemed copyrightable as yet, because those don't necessarily require header files.

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