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MySQL man pages license change is a bug
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Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#22saw that coming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
When you combine Hanlon's razor (Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity) with Clarke's law (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic) you get Grey' corollary (Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice).
Anyone who has sufficient exposure to any large bureaucracy will have examples of the last to share. Which then raises the possibility that (as is happening currently with Bank of America) the possibility of advanced stupidity is used to cover actual malice.
Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#23> started pulling in man pages with the wrong set of copyright headers And how has the wrong set of copyright headers ended up on said pages?
The MySQL build team has a script that updates the license header in files that require it. Since the "different license" is actually the license of the documentation, from which the man pages are generated, it is possible that the script failed to update the licence text in the man pages.
Source: Ex-Oracle MySQL engineer.
Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#24No word yet on why the source code for the MySQL documentation is no longer publicly available. Was recently and silently made unavailable. This is much worse than a few man pages.
Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#25Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#26saw that coming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
When you combine Hanlon's razor (Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity) with Clarke's law (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic) you get Grey' corollary (Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice). Anyone who has sufficient exposure to any large bureaucracy will have examples of the last to share. Which then raises the…
...which leads us right back to Hanlon's razor (it's probably not malice, just stupidity).
Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#27Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#28No word yet on why the source code for the MySQL documentation is no longer publicly available. Was recently and silently made unavailable. This is much worse than a few man pages.
You can download the documentation here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/
Or are you referring to the scripts that generate it?
Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#29We've seen this twice in two days now. Facebook is blocking Tor except that maybe they're not. MySQL is now under a new license, except it's not. The alarmist headlines not waiting for a response from the newly-damned organization, instead issuing a retraction after everyone has freaked out.
Will the tech community ever get past the manufactured controversy and knee-jerk reaction we lambast the mainstream media for?
Re: MySQL man pages license change is a bug
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you combine Hanlon's razor (Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity) with Clarke's law (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic) you get Grey' corollary (Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice). Anyone who has sufficient exposure to any large bureaucracy will have examples of the last to share. Which then raises the…
...which leads us right back to Hanlon's razor (it's probably not malice, just stupidity).
But this time with the "Never" somewhat qualified.