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MySQL is owned and sponsored by the Swedish firm MySQL AB, a for-profit firm. It holds the copyright to most of their code base and touts more than 11 million installations of the software ...

BOSTON--Open-source software company MySQL has revamped its pricing and licensing practices in an effort to make its database more attractive to corporate customers. On Tuesday, the company ...

MySQL will continue to use the commercial license for those customers that embed the company's database in other products, such as other software providers. Through the MySQL Network program ...