On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 06:07, Jeff Davis wrote:
> Also, aren't mysql and sleepycat in the standard distribution of Debian? I
> would think the debian developers would be interested to know if the likes of
> sleepycat and mysql don't abide by the DFSG. That's actually one of the
> things I've always liked about Debian: read one set of guidelines, and trust
> the developers to ensure compliance across the entire OS (as long as you stay
> our of non-free). At least, so I thought...
I looked at the copyright information on the mysql-server package in
Debian and also at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/MySQL_licenses.html:
The MySQL documentation is in non-free (and is not therefore officially
part of Debian). MySQL itself is GPL, so you can do what you like with
it, whatever FUD their website puts out, so long as you make your source
code available. If you want to fork MySQL, you can!
Sleepycat is free so long as source code is released.
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