MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL

Re:MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL by spudlyo on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @09:35PM (#5903232)

All versions of MySQL since 3.23.19 have been released under the GPL, but AFAIK the documentation has always retained its copyright under the ownership of MySQL AB, Sun and now Oracle. At no point was it ever distributed under the Creative Commons or some other free-ish documentation license.

When I refer to "the documentation" I'm mostly talking about the web docs at dev.mysql.com, which are are far more important than the man pages.

If the man pages are covered by the GPL'd may be a thorny issue. The GPL is not generally applied to documentation.

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Re:MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL by belorn on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @02:33AM (#5904021)

Its actually quite common that man pages are used under the GPL. Looking at Debian, almost every packages comes with man pages included, and aren't the package commonly under a single license? However, those projects who uses more complex form of documentation might put more effort in picking a suitable license for documentation.

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