Placing directory structure under GNU GPL

2001-07-31 Thread System Administrator 

I wonder whether the default directory structure of all future mysql
releases could also be GPL'led. That would prevent others from placing
the releases on directories of their own choice.

This would be a very useful restriction, as then changing OSes would be
lot easier, rather than remember which is the directory structure for
which OS and so on.

Raju



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Re: Placing directory structure under GNU GPL

2001-07-31 Thread Peter van Dijk 

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:48:07PM +0400, System Administrator wrote:
 I wonder whether the default directory structure of all future mysql
 releases could also be GPL'led. That would prevent others from placing
 the releases on directories of their own choice.

The GPL does not impose any restrictions, as long as people keep the
source open. Keeping the source of a directory structure open is not
that complicated.

Therefore, it will not help.

Greetz, Peter
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