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Friday, July 25, 2008

On MySQL forks and MySQL’s non-Open Source documentation

One of the things that sets MySQL apart (in, IMHO, a very bad way) from other Open Source database projects/products such as PostgreSQL (license) and Firebird (license) is that the MySQL documentation is NOT Open Source. The MySQL documentation is and always has been copyright MySQL AB, and “… use of this documentation, in whole or in part, in another publication, requires the prior written consent from an authorized representative of MySQL AB”.

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/07/23/on-mysql-forks-and-mysqls-non-open-source-documentation/

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