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

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. However, that does not help you with the MySQL parts, as you say... On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Daniel Bartholomew

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wrote: On 12/05/2010, at 9:12 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote:

Paul> You are free to copy any part of the primebase.org documentation Paul> to askmonty.org. Paul> Paul> It is not stated, but in general our documentation is also GPL. I Paul> will add this to our Web-site.

Paul,

Thank you for licensing the documentation under the GPL and letting us use it!

Hmm... this reminds me:

We've decided to use a combo of GFDL and CC BY-SA for our documentation licenses.

Copying in documentation that is GPL licensed is probably not possible, I'm sure the GPL is incompatible with at least CC BY-SA.

I'm not even concerned of the PBXT docs, I'm sure Paul would be flexible. But I just realized we also use the MySQL help files, which surely are GPL and we haven't seen much signs of MySQL being active in relicensing their docs ;-)

This raises the question whether we should actually use GPL only as the license for our manual? It is copyleft too, so a workable choice even if it is "awkward" for literary works.

A key question would be how much will we lose (such as in man-days of effort) if we just take away the MySQL help files from the manual?

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