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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL

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It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been relicensed. The change was made rather silently going from MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.5.31. This affects all pages in the man/ directory of the source code.

https://blog.mariadb.org/mysql-man-pages-silently-relicensed-away-from-gpl/

does that mean anything for IPS company?

Why would it?

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I dunno, use of mysql database and such? its a matter of time before they will charge for using mysql imho.

This would be up to your host.

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ok, understood.

One cannot just relicense GPL "like that" -- EVERY contributor to that source code file (or documentation page as the case may be here) needs to agree to relicense (or their changes to the file need to be removed/reverted before relicensing), and that is incredibly difficult to accomplish when one accepts contributions from the community at-large.

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