Re: MySQL FOSS Exception

[Jim Marhaus <marhaus@sdf.lonestar.org>]

Andreas wrote:

>>> The MySQL folks have a *new* statement [...]
> http://zak.greant.com:8888/licensing/rlog?f=licensing/FLOSS-exception.txt

I think requirement 0.b(ii), as introduced in version 1.5 of the exception,
might need extra work to fulfill, since Debian vendors do not always provide
source and binaries on the same medium:

| 0. You are free to distribute a Derivative Work that is formed entirely from
|   the Program and one or more works (each, a "FLOSS Work") licensed under
|   one or more of the licenses listed below in section 1, as long as:

|   b. all identifiable sections of the Derivative Work which are not
|      derived from the Program, and which can reasonably be considered
|      independent and separate works in themselves,
|
|       (i) are distributed subject to one of the FLOSS licenses listed
|           below, and
|
|      (ii) the object code or executable form of those sections are
|           accompanied by the complete corresponding machine-readable
|           source code for those sections on the same medium and under the
-------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|           same FLOSS license as the corresponding object code or
|           executable forms of those sections, and

For example, if proftpd-mysql were distributed under this exception, vendors
might have to provide the source for proftpd-mysql on the same CD (or CD set)
as the executable. The requirement might also affect how the work can be
distributed online: for example, source and binaries might have to be provided
on the same server, or through the same protocol.

-Jim