Hi Stefan

On 2005-05-18 Stefan Hinz wrote:
> > 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.

Ok, thanks.
 
> > (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?

Everything under Docs/ is split away to the mysql-doc package and part
of the "non-free" area. The rest (mysql-server, mysql-client, libs)
is also in separate packages but all belongs to the "main" area. The only
thing I removed was the benchmark tests but that doesn't matter, I guess.

> Stefan
bye,

-christian-


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