Re: [Maria-docs] Mixing GPL licensed material into our documentation

On Jun 3, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Paul McCullagh wrote:

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Hi Henrik,

As I mentioned, I have changed the license to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

I assume this is compatible with the license of the MariaDB documentation.

Kind of. If you ask us for advice, we would actually like you to dual license: use both that CC license AND GFDL.

That's OK with me. But, as far as I can tell, there is nothing stopping some from taking CC content, and incorporating it in a GFDL document.

We looked into this last year, found out this is what wikipedia does, and essentially learned that there is no one great documentation license, but doing this kind of dual licensing gives you a pretty good result. (http://askmonty.org/wiki/Askmonty.org:Copyrights#Why_the_dual_license.3F )

That being said, the arrangement allows to take in single pages that are only under one of those licenses, if it is not possible to reach the author or agree on a change.

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However, that does not help you with the MySQL parts, as you say...

No. Grr...

henrik

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