Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source?

Found on The MariaDB Blog on Saturday, 18 August 2012
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One of the changes that 5.5.27 brings in an extension to the mysql-test-run script — the driver script of the mysql-test suite — which makes it look for test cases in a new directory. In addition to the usual location (that is, the mysql-test/ directory in the source tree), it will now look for test cases in the internal/mysql-test/ directory. Does this mean that test cases are no longer open source? Oracle did not reply to my question. But indeed, there is evidence that this guess is true. For example, this commit mail shows that new test cases, indeed, go in this “internal” directory, which is not included in the MySQL source distribution.

It’s difficult to find anything more valuable to external developers than test cases. But arguably the revision history is. And it seems that Oracle is going to keep this information to itself too. Public MySQL trees on launchpad with the revision history are not being updated.

One would think that Larry has learned a lesson or two from the great fiascos by killing OpenSolaris and trying to get control of OpenOffice. If he really thinks that each and every MySQL installation out there is a lost sale for Oracle then he's one of the biggest retards out there. Messing with MySQL will just create something like OurSQL, NoracleSQL or LibreSQL.