[Mageia-dev] Question about mysql-workbench documentation license

Wed Nov 21 05:31:15 CET 2012

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org>wrote:
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+> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:54 AM, andre999 <andre999mga at laposte.net>wrote:
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+>> An alternate approach would be to package and distribute the
+>> documentation separately (as nonfree).  Oracle permits this as long as it
+>> is only available on the same media or sites as mysql-workbench -- which
+>> concurs with our current practices.
+>> Then the mysql-workbench package itself would still be GPL.
+>>
+>> So I'd go for the second option.
+>> Maybe adding a comment in the mysql-workbench description indicating that
+>> due to licensing restrictions, the documentation is available in non-free.
+>>
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+Giving it a second thought, I think this isn't a good idea because if I
+split the documentation into a separate package that would mean that I
+would need to have mysql-workbench sources also in the documentation
+package to be able to build it. And looking more closely at the Fedora
+patch, they remove the documentation but patch the program to open the
+online version of the documentation. IMO, if we can't include the doc in
+the same mysql-workbench package then the online approach is better.
+
+-- 
+Juancho
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