https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662038
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662038#c0
Summary: MySQL community server contains proprietary
documentation
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE 11.3
Version: Final
Platform: x86-64
OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3
Status: NEW
Severity: Major
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Installation
AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
ReportedBy: giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl
QAContact: jsrain@novell.com
Found By: ---
Blocker: ---
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-PL; rv:1.9.2.13)
Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.13
MySQL community server contains proprietary documentation that cannot be
repackaged because it is forbidden. GPL does not cover the whole package.
Note that the Sun documentation license construct actually makes it impossible
to modify the source code of MySQL in a way that would invalidate the
statements of the documentation provided by Sun. Since the documentation is
not modifiable at all, the documentation for the changes would have to be in
another document, and any application or method for displaying integrated
documentation to the operator would violate the Sun documentation license.
That means the whole documentation would have to be rewritten from scratch.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. { rpm '-qi' 'mysql-community-server'; }
2. { rpm '-qf' '/usr/share/info/mysql.info.gz'; }
3. { xdg-open 'info:/mysql'; }
Actual Results:
1. License: GPLv2 ; with additional permissions: EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT
2. mysql-community-server-5.1.46-2.18.x86_64
3.
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 Sun
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 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc. and
MySQL AB reserve any and all rights to this documentation not expressly
granted above.
Expected Results:
1.
License: GPLv2 ; with additional permissions: EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT ; Sun (info)
Note: this change probably puts MySQL out of openSuSE OSS.
See Licensing [1].
2. This is tough.
mysql-community-server-doc, license: Sun is impossible because the
documentation is inseparable.
The trick with mscorefonts will not work either, for the same reason.
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