[MDEV-21119] Does MariaDB rely on MySQL code base on ongoing basis? Created: 2019-11-21  Updated: 2020-01-23  Resolved: 2019-12-03

Status: Closed
Project: MariaDB Server
Component/s: OTHER
Fix Version/s: N/A

Type: Task Priority: Blocker
Reporter: weranga Sidhesh Kaluarachchi Assignee: Sergei Golubchik
Resolution: Not a Bug Votes: 0
Labels: compliance,, license


 Description   

Hi,
Our company is interested using MariaDB as part of our development and we are totally fine with GPL license. However, as you mentioned it is developed on Oracle's MySQL and with the direction Oracle is heading we are concerned to use MariaDB. So my question is, does MariaDB has any dependency to My SQL on ongoing basis? Or MariaDB copied the MySQL code base one time and developed independently since and no connection to MySQL what so ever.

Please let me know.

Thank you,
Weranga

 Comments   
Comment by Sergei Golubchik [ 2019-12-03 ]

This is not a bug, please use Zulip or mailing lists for that, see https://mariadb.org/contribute/

Anyway, the answer is no, MariaDB does not depend on MySQL development team. Most of the features are developed and most of the bugs are fixed internally. We might port a feature from MySQL when our users request it for compatibility reasons, but it does not happen often.

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