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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:It's only called a bug... by cold+fjord · · Score: 2

      It's only called a bug...... because someone noticed it.

      I doubt that Oracle would have tried to slip this under the radar. I would expect them to make an announcement that it was coming and ignore the complaints.

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  2. Coming from Oracle ... by PPH · · Score: 2

    ... I can believe the 'bug' explanation. They've been cranking out bugs since 1977. So they're clearly the experts on the subject.

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    1. Re:Coming from Oracle ... by djbckr · · Score: 2

      It's a little disingenuous to say that. Everybody writes bugs. I consider myself to be an expert coder, I've been doing it for well over 20 years with hundreds of successful projects. I've lead some of the best teams. And yet, no matter what, *everything* has bugs. Some big, some small. Granted, Oracle is rather slow in fixing general bugs. But I've found that with support, if you have a show-stopper bug in your database, they will write a hot-fix for you. I still don't like Larry Ellison though.

  3. You mean Big Bad Oracle really isn't up... by exabrial · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know Oracle is a supposed to be super evil lawyer driven blah blah blah... but just so we get the story straight, Monty sells MySql to Sun, Oracle buys Sun, Monty wants MySql back as MariaDb. At this point, Monty and the MySql community have cried wolf one to many fucking times. I really just don't care anymore.

    1. 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.

  4. Re:Duh? by fazey · · Score: 2

    So they just HAPPENED to accidentally include a new license? eh, sounds fishy. Oracle screws up everything they touch. I was at Sun Microsystems for some ZFS training shortly after the Oracle buyout... the look of defeat these guys had...

  5. 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.

  6. Color me surprised. by flimflammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    That people were entertaining notions otherwise was asinine, regardless of it involving Oracle. This might have actually been something to worry about if the documents weren't already dual licensed. This sort of mistake has been made time and time again, and will continue to be made time and time again.