Christian,
you make me phone with American lawyers; frightening. ;-) Please see below.
Christian Hammers wrote:
Hi
On 2005-05-18 Stefan Hinz wrote:
So was your above sentence just not exact and you really require me to remove the mysql manual from Debian?
I was imprecise. What I meant to say is "not separately" in the sense of putting the Manual somewhere outside the vicinity of the MySQL software. E.g. putting the Manual on a book CD that doesn't contain the MySQL software. Does this sound clearer?
Ok.
If, on the other hand, you want to have it shipped "in a distribution that also has the mysql server and client binaries in another package" then I need a short and clear copyright addition that I can put into the copyright file of the package to make the ftp master happy again.
OK, I've asked our contract dept. for such a paper. Not sure if they get this done by ... By when do you need to have it? And since it's legal stuff, you probably need it on paper; so where should we send that paper to?
It's enough if you write it per email and state that this addition applies to 4.0.x, 4.1.x and will appear in the next release. Something like
In addition to the current MySQL manual licence, MySQL grants permission to everyone to distribute the manual in unaltered form (regarding to the content not the format) as long as the server is distributed, too.
The lawyer I just phoned to is telling me she'll get back to me soon with an assessment whether or not we can give that permission. I hope I can get back to you in time.
(please be careful with the definition of how exactly the server is distributed as e.g. in Debian non-free is not considered part of "the Debian distribution" but rather a part of the archive that is maintained for convinience only... and also it maybe on a different CD-ROM so "on the same medium" is also not valid... complicated...
If I have it in the next days that would be nice, else the release manager might have no pardon as this is "only" a non-free package and the archive is "frozen" for release..
Argh. Are you referring to the whole MySQL package, or just to the Reference Manual, when you're talking about the non-free package?
Regards,
Stefan -- Stefan Hinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MySQL AB, Documentation Team Taunusstr. 27, 12161 Berlin, Germany Desk: +49 30 82702940 Fax: +49 30 82702941 Mobile: +49 177 7841069
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