On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:54:52 +0200, Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi> wrote: Henrik> Back from vacation, taking another stab at this. Welcome back! <cut> Henrik> I didn't check, but unless something changed I think the MySQL Henrik> manual is *not* part of our packages currently? AFAIK this is correct. The only pieces of documentation we are allowed to use (under the terms of GPLv2) are the fill_help_tables.sql file and some INSTALL... files. There might also be a couple others that I can't remember right now. Henrik> The reasons we once decided to omit it was that: Henrik> - Most people browse the online docs anyway Henrik> - MySQL manual is not Free so we may just as well learn to Henrik> live without it Henrik> - You are allowed to distribute the MySQL manual "disseminated Henrik> together with the software", which is kind of true for MariaDB, Henrik> but a hostile lawyer could argue that MariaDB is not MySQL, so Henrik> we wouldn't fullfil that requirement. I can see how this could bite us, so I agree with Henrik that we should not distribute the complete MySQL manual. Henrik> Attached is the edited version. Henrik> Henrik> Daniel, can you take ownership of this now. I'll comment by Henrik> email if needed. (But don't expect to have anything to add.) I made some further modifications to Henrik's version of the README. My changes mainly focused on cleaning up the text (e.g. fixing a few instances of what I considered to be awkward phrases and needless duplication, and re-arranging things slightly for a better logical flow). I've created a branch of lp:maria on launchpad (my first one!). For now the only difference is my modified version of the README file: lp:~dbart/maria/maria-5.1-docmods I've also attached it to this email so Henrik can easily review it. -- Daniel Bartholomew Monty Program - http://askmonty.org