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Relicensing of MySQL Man Pages Just a Bug

Posted by Unknown on from the oracle-still-evil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As reported earlier on Slashdot it appeared the license covering the MySQL man pages was changed from the GPL to something less good. However, as speculated, this appears to be a bug." The build system was grabbing the wrong files, oops. The fix should be coming shortly: "Once the fixes have been made to the build system, we will rebuild the latest 5.1, 5.5, 5.6 releases plus the latest 5.7 milestone and make those available publicly asap."

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  1. It's only called a bug... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... because someone noticed it. <_<

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    1. Re:It's only called a bug... by girlintraining · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, with that logic, Oracle never does anything evil.

      Ah, to paraphrase, "there is a principle which is a bar against all knowledge and will never fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- and that is contempt prior to investigation." You can't simply say "because this person/group/organization has done so many evil things in the past, this has to be as well." You start engaging in that kind of thinking regularly and before you know it you'll be a talk show host or running for political office.

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  2. Re:You mean Big Bad Oracle really isn't up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, Monty sold MySQL to Sun, then after the terms of his agreement were met, he forked an open source project and we now have MariaDB. All legal and moral and above board. Lots of us are grateful as well, due to the improvements that MariaDB is bringing over MySQL.

  3. Bug=/=Trial Balloon by Culture20 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is it possible for an automated process to insert the wrong license? Because the change is being planned or at least prepared for. This could have been a trial balloon.

    1. Re:Bug=/=Trial Balloon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Perhaps because there are paid versions of MySQL available which presumably aren't GPL licensed.