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[Paul McCullagh <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <dbart@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > wrote:
> > On 12/05/2010, at 9:12 PM, Paul McCullagh
> > <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
>
> henrik
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