Ooops forgot to put the link from where the licence comes from: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-preface.html
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste <juan...@mageia.org>wrote: > Hi, > > In Fedora the bundled documentation of mysql-workbench has been removed > because it isn't distributed under a GPL license. However, according to > this parte of the license, it seems that it can be distributed if it's > distributed along with mysql-workbench: > > ---------- > > This documentation is NOT distributed under a GPL license. Use of this > documentation is subject to the following terms: > > You may create a printed copy of this documentation solely for your own > personal use. Conversion to other formats is allowed as long as the actual > content is not altered or edited in any way. You shall not publish or > distribute this documentation in any form or on any media, except if you > distribute the documentation in a manner similar to how Oracle disseminates > it (that is, electronically for download on a Web site with the software) > or on a CD-ROM or similar medium, provided however that the documentation > is disseminated together with the software on the same medium. Any other > use, such as any dissemination of printed copies or use of this > documentation, in whole or in part, in another publication, requires the > prior written consent from an authorized representative of Oracle. Oracle > and/or its affiliates reserve any and all rights to this documentation not > expressly granted above. > > ---------- > > My interpretation is that even if it isn't GPL'd we can distribute it if > it's bundled with mysql-workbench. Is this correct ? if not then I'll apply > the patch form Fedora to remove it too. > > Cheers, > -- > Juancho > -- Juancho
