Comments on: Please re-license the MySQL documentation

By: Listen to Monty « JZ Talk Blogger

Listen to Monty « JZ Talk Blogger — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:16:54 +0000

[...] version of the official documentation. Several people have written about this before including me, Baron, Sheeri, Arjen and [...]

By: Roland Bouman

Roland Bouman — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:34:27 +0000

“Karen Padir, please keep your implied promise during your keynote”

Just offering the context:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsckkNBAeio
Kaj Arno is introduced at 35:44

[36:11]
Karen: “Are there other kind of big ball things that you think we should be doing?”
Kaj: “Can I wish for something?”
Karen: “Yes.”
Kaj: “So I was thinking about going a bit more open source, for instance on the documentation”
Karen: “BSD? just kidding…that was a joke.”
Kaj: “DFDL or something..
Karen: “The documentation?”
Kaj: “uh huh”
Karen: “So what do you guys think about that….Should we GPL the documentation, is that something you guys would like?”

[audience applauds]

Karen: “Allright, so why don’t we go and talk about that, lets see if we can do that..”
Karent: “So thank you.”

[36:41]
…keynote proceeds with the next topic.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:39:50 +0000

I agree it should be opened in principle… but for you stay you won’t go into the details is some what contradictory to your position… if you believe the documentation should be open you should also make your reasons as open as your desired documentation… that at least would make for a more complying argument IMO…

By: William

William — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:23:08 +0000

Re-licensing it would be great, but if we can’t do that, how could we recreate it with out violating the copyright? Do we have to lock ourselves up in a room and just write from memory? Or is our memory already tainted by having read the manual? Can we reference blog posts & books like High Performance Mysql or would that violate their copyrights instead or in addition to the manuals?