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Jul
22
2009
Another reason to GPL the MySQL docs - the site goes down and documentation is suddenly unavailable.
Posted by Justin Swanhart on Wed 22 Jul 2009 19:33 UTC
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Fix your licensing model so that mirrors can legally maintain copies of your documentation, so that I'm not left sitting in the dark when your website goes down.

What if Oracle shut MySQL down today? They absolutely could. With the documentation not in the GPL, when Oracle pulls the plug on the websites, well, goodbye docs. It isn't legal to mirror them elsewhere.