2 messages in com.mysql.lists.communityRe: Upgrade of MySQL FLOSS License Ex...
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Francesco P. Lovergine25 Aug 2004 06:33 
Zak Greant27 Aug 2004 11:50 
Subject:Re: Upgrade of MySQL FLOSS License Exception
From:Zak Greant (za@mysql.com)
Date:08/27/2004 11:50:06 AM
List:com.mysql.lists.community

Dear Francesco,

Please drop a line to lice@mysql.com regarding the openssl licensing issue - they can help you sort this out.

A general comment: adding a couple of external URLs in the definition of the FLOSS is quite dangerous, they are subject to changes and could invalidate the license. I'm referring to the section:

"Due to the many variants of some of the above licenses, we require that any version follow the 2003 version of the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Definition (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) or version 1.9 of the Open Source Definition by the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php)."

It could be safer to add them in appendix as enclosed documents.

Agreed. I have filed a bug report at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=5266

Thanks! --zak