Where’s the Calpont source code?
As you may have noticed, Calpont has been advertising themselves as an open-source storage engine for MySQL. And yet there is no source code.
A bit of back-story. When we were choosing speakers for the Percona Performance Conference, I personally reviewed Calpont’s submission and sent them an email on March 19th:
I cannot confirm that this is an open-source columnar storage engine. I can’t find source code or a download of the software. Can you point me the right direction on that? I want to be sure we are describing things accurately.
The response was
Calpont is indeed going to be placed into the open source community somewhere right around the time of the User Conference. We are in the process of wrapping up a few things before we make it available for download so that we can make sure that we make the right first impression.”
I accepted their talk on good faith, but I still don’t see any source code, just “How to Buy” buttons. This blog post is a gentle public reminder that the source code is overdue.
Thank you for the friendly reminder.
As we mentioned during our session at the Percona Conference, we have work to do on our partner relationships prior to being able to perform this action. We had hoped to complete those activies prior to the conference, but the business conditions did not allow for it.
Please know that we’re committed to the power of the open source community and frankly would not have attended either the Percona Performance Conference or the MySQL User Conference if we didn’t. We’re working very hard on our partnership agreements and at building a supportive community infrastructure so that we can attract and support those that are interested in what we are up to.
I’ll post again the instant we have all of this worked out.
John Weber, Calpont
25 Apr 09 at 1:02 pm
John, thanks very much for following up.
Xaprb
25 Apr 09 at 1:10 pm
Partnership agreement? For what? Releasing source code under an open source license doesn’t require a partnership agreement. Maybe I’m missing something here, but…
What?
26 Apr 09 at 6:15 am
Doesn’t it depend on the license (GPL, LGPL, BSD..) and whether modifications were made? Maybe John as Director of Engineering needs a little time to find out from his engineers what they did? Or maybe Calpont is just trying to benefit from saying “Open Source” without understanding their obligations?
Are you kidding?
26 Apr 09 at 12:40 pm
Partner relationships? With out further explanation, that can only mean a few things. There code base includes code from third parties that they don’t have an agreement to open source ( sort of like Java 6 can’t be completely open source as parts of the miscellaneous multimedia library are licensed code Sun didn’t write), there code started from another code base they licensed form someone else and don’t have permission yet to release it ( Like Solaris before it changed its agreement with Sco), or they licensed it to a third party and now have to assuage the concerns of those they licensed it to that they are still getting value for their license over and above what the open sourced version would provide.
In any case, it appears that they mean well. The way the Myql Community works, they won’t see significant uptake of their product unless it is open sourced. So they are only hurting themselves, if they keep it closed.
William
27 Apr 09 at 11:23 am
I just thought I would check in with you to let you know that we have FINALLY launched an open source edition of our analytics DBMS, InfiniDB Community Edition. If you’re interested, stop by http://www.infinidb.org for a visit.
John Weber, Calpont
27 Oct 09 at 12:23 pm
John, congratulations and thanks! This is awesome. I’m sure we will all be seeing a lot about it in the blogs.
Xaprb
27 Oct 09 at 9:24 pm