This package was debianized by Mathias Gug <mathiaz@ubuntu.com> on
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:52:21 -0400.

It was downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/:
 * reference manual from http://downloads.mysql.com/docs/refman-5.0-en.html-chapter.tar.gz

Upstream Author: MySQL AB - http://www.mysql.com

Copyright 1997-2008 MySQL AB

License:

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 to how MySQL disseminates it (that is, electronically for download on a Web
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 that the documentation is disseminated together with the software on the same
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Here is a clarification from Stefan Hinz <stefan@mysql.com> with regards to
distributing the manual in a different repository than the mysql binaries:

>> Stefan Hinz stated in [3] that your aim is that "the Manual to be
>> shipped with the software *but not separately*.". After reading the
>> whole bug thread, it's not clear to me whether you think shipping the
>> Manual in a different repository is a violation of your license.
>>
>>  [3]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308680#32
>
> It's no violation of our license. The legal notice that's attached to         
> all our documents (with the exception of the man page format, see above)      
> contains this sentence (see, for example,                                     
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/index.html):                           
>                                                                               
> "You shall not publish or distribute this documentation in any form or        
> on any media, except if you distribute the documentation in a manner          
> similar to how MySQL disseminates it (that is, electronically for             
> download on a Web site with the software) or on a CD-ROM or similar           
> medium, provided however that the documentation is disseminated together      
> with the software on the same medium."                                        
>                                                                               
> The crucial term is "together with the software on the same medium". Our      
> legal counsel confirmed that this could, and actually should, be              
> interpreted as "on the same web site" or "on the same FTP server" when        
> it comes to online distribution, because that's "similar to how MySQL         
> disseminates it" (we distribute our software through                          
> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ and our docs through                          
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/).                                                   
>                                                                               
> One could argue what exactly "the same" (web site, FTP server,                
> repository server, etc.) would be. We have a relaxed definition of this.      
> For example, oss.distro.org and non-oss.distro.org, or even                   
> distro-oss.org and distro-non-oss.org would be regarded "the same" in         
> that respect. You can quote me on this.                                       
>                                                                               


The Debian packaging is (C) 2007,8, Mathias Gug <mathiaz@ubuntu.com> and
is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

