nostr:npub18yve5f33hyqq35t3y3xu72t9x33pfdznd0kq78lf73wkxchzr5hsmjxxyn MariaDB the company is a key sponsor of the foundation, so their financial situation definitely has an impact on the development of the database. They can't change the database licence even if they wanted to, as it's a derivative of Oracle MySQL and they are not the sole copyright holders. Only Oracle themselves can change the licence, as they own the entire intellectual property. In fact, they do - it's called MySQL Enterprise.