Bug#308680: MySQL docs not distributable?

2005-05-26 Thread Stefan Hinz
member of the Debian FTP team, and Christian Hammers assigned this issue to us. On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:13:01PM +0200, Stefan Hinz wrote: On 2005-05-18 Stefan Hinz wrote: What's not mentioned here is what we *do* allow, and that's what all this discussion is about: We want the Manual

Bug#308680: MySQL docs not distributable?

2005-05-22 Thread Stefan Hinz
Christian Hammers wrote: Hello 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

Bug#308680: MySQL docs not distributable?

2005-05-18 Thread Stefan Hinz
Hi Christian, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello On 2005-05-13 Stefan Hinz wrote: Christian Hammers wrote: I maintain the MySQL packages for the Debian distribution and are facing some licence issues here. I'm working with our contracts dept. to change that copyright note so it doesn't confuse our

Bug#308680: MySQL docs not distributable?

2005-05-18 Thread Stefan Hinz
Christian, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello Stefan On 2005-05-18 Stefan Hinz wrote: As our next release is in preparation I would have to know this week, if the docs may be distributed or not, else they get thrown out. Can you already tell me what the outcome will be like? ... What's not mentioned

Bug#308680: MySQL docs not distributable?

2005-05-18 Thread Stefan Hinz
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

Bug#308680: MySQL docs not distributable?

2005-05-18 Thread Stefan Hinz
Christian Hammers wrote: 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

Bug#308680: MySQL docs not distributable?

2005-05-13 Thread Stefan Hinz
Christian Hammers wrote: I maintain the MySQL packages for the Debian distribution and are facing some licence issues here. Christian, I'm working with our contracts dept. to change that copyright note so it doesn't confuse our users. I'll get back to you soon. Regards, Stefan -- Stefan Hinz