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[Paul McCullagh <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Paul McCullagh
> <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > However, that does not help you with the MySQL parts, as you say...
>
> No. Grr...
>
> henrik
>
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