On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.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.