Comments on: MySQL docs freedom http://openquery.com/blog/mysql-docs-freedom About MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB and more! Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:26:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Log Buffer #145: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | Pythian Group Blog http://openquery.com/blog/mysql-docs-freedom/comment-page-1#comment-1049 Log Buffer #145: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | Pythian Group Blog Fri, 08 May 2009 16:44:52 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1049 [...] and will never understand the MySQL community.” In his piece on MySQL docs freedom, Arjen Lentz wrote, “I believe this is a serious concern for the product as a whole, and hope this concern [...] [...] and will never understand the MySQL community.” In his piece on MySQL docs freedom, Arjen Lentz wrote, “I believe this is a serious concern for the product as a whole, and hope this concern [...]

]]> By: arjen http://openquery.com/blog/mysql-docs-freedom/comment-page-1#comment-1037 arjen Tue, 05 May 2009 22:07:37 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1037 @sheeri Yep, it's there, but why does it fall under GPLv2? Is that explicitly stated somewhere? As far as I know, it simply used under the basic MySQL docu license that allows distribution of (parts of) the docu as long as it's together with the server. Does Debian include the help tables? That might be an indication of the status, since the MySQL docu license is not a free license as described in the Debian guidelines. @sheeri Yep, it’s there, but why does it fall under GPLv2? Is that explicitly stated somewhere? As far as I know, it simply used under the basic MySQL docu license that allows distribution of (parts of) the docu as long as it’s together with the server. Does Debian include the help tables? That might be an indication of the status, since the MySQL docu license is not a free license as described in the Debian guidelines.

]]> By: Sheeri K. Cabral http://openquery.com/blog/mysql-docs-freedom/comment-page-1#comment-1016 Sheeri K. Cabral Fri, 01 May 2009 19:30:32 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1016 FYI, something I thought about -- there's lots of documentation embedded in the server code. Seriously -- the mysql.help_topic table is full of manual excerpts, and falls under GPLv2. FYI, something I thought about — there’s lots of documentation embedded in the server code.

Seriously — the mysql.help_topic table is full of manual excerpts, and falls under GPLv2.

]]> By: Stefan Hinz http://openquery.com/blog/mysql-docs-freedom/comment-page-1#comment-1000 Stefan Hinz Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:09:20 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=700#comment-1000 This blog post is essentially what you've already said in a comment to my blog post: http://blogs.sun.com/mysqlf/entry/mysql_documentation_no_license_change#comment-1241042013000 See my reply to your comment/blog post immediately under your reply. :-) -Stefan This blog post is essentially what you’ve already said in a comment to my blog post:

http://blogs.sun.com/mysqlf/entry/mysql_documentation_no_license_change#comment-1241042013000

See my reply to your comment/blog post immediately under your reply. :-)

-Stefan

]]> By: Joshua Kugler http://openquery.com/blog/mysql-docs-freedom/comment-page-1#comment-998 Joshua Kugler Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:27:09 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=700#comment-998 And then you have an even more insidious problem: anyone who wants to write a GPL'd set of docs for MySQl will most likely have read the MySQL docs at one point, so any attempt to do so could result in the parent company screaming "Contamination." Similar arguments apply if one attempts to write docs for a fork of MySQL, say, Drizzle. Fun times. And then you have an even more insidious problem: anyone who wants to write a GPL’d set of docs for MySQl will most likely have read the MySQL docs at one point, so any attempt to do so could result in the parent company screaming “Contamination.” Similar arguments apply if one attempts to write docs for a fork of MySQL, say, Drizzle.

Fun times.

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