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Eben Moglen Sends Letter in Support of Oracle to EU Commission - GPL Works No Matter Who Owns the Co
Eben Moglen has sent a letter to the EU Commission essentially in support of Oracle/Sun:
A top legal expert on open-sourcesoftware has told European antitrust regulators holding upOracle Corp's $7 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems that their analysis of the deal is partly flawed....
"The issues raised (by the commission) concerning the GPLv2status of the MySQL code base do not warrant a conclusion thatthis transaction threatens significant anti-competitiveconsequences," Moglen told EU regulators in a Nov. 19 letter.
Moglen writes that the GPL was designed to be effective no matter who owns the copyrights. So the world's expert on the GPL has just told the Commission that the so-called analysis of the GPL by Florian Mueller and Monty Widenius, which apparently influenced the Commission heretofore, is full of beans.
A lot of people don't understand the GPL, of course. But between Eben Moglen and anyone else on the planet, if you do want to understand it, Moglen is who you would ask. Would you like to see the email that Mueller is sending around in response to this latest event? Hold your nose.

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Jifty::DBI::Handle::Oracle(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Jifty::DBI::Handle::Oracle(3pm)

NAME

	 Jifty::DBI::Handle::Oracle - An oracle specific Handle object

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides a subclass of Jifty::DBI::Handle that compensates for some of the idiosyncrasies of Oracle.

METHODS

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   insert
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   blob_params column_NAME column_type
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   apply_limits STATEMENTREF ROWS_PER_PAGE FIRST_ROW
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AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

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