| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Mauricio Chamati <mchamati(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Database INNOVATION |
| Date: | 2010-10-19 20:39:58 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi=rCTvJEXO6Nt_Cb2eXrJujmKORaMTbeVR8C51i@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> On a side note, MySQL is GPL licensed and cannot simply be taken. The
>> commercially licensed version is owned by Oracle / Sun, but the GPL
>> code is quite free to be hacked and released and use according to the
>> GPL.
>
> As the MySQL documentation is not GPL licensed, such hacks will have to
> start over from scratch in that area. Good luck with that.
Actually, given the horrible docs for mysql (sorry but I can't find
anything in there half the time) that's not a wholly bad thing. Plus
you can always get the docs from somewhere else, if you have to, I
guess.
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