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Is this even legal? they released the previous documentation under GPL v2 which has a clause stating any modified versions have to be released under the same li

by marme 13y ago

Is this even legal? they released the previous documentation under GPL v2 which has a clause stating any modified versions have to be released under the same license. This new documentation is clearly just a modification of the previous documentation. It would be interesting if it came of they did not have the right to do this. If even even one line of the documentation was written by someone else and they did not get a transfer of copyright they could get sued for doing this.

josephlord 13y ago
The copyright owner can license under whatever license they like. As many have said even before it was sold to Sun all contributions needed a copyright assignment before they were accepted (so they could sell the option to make closed source modifications amongst other things) so Oracle can now license as they wish. What they can't do is revoke the existing GPL licenses so you can still develop and modify the old docs. Having said that this is Oracle and you should probably just run for the hills (MariaDB) before Oracle make it hard to make it fully compatible with future version of MySQL by doing something else.