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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL

It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been relicensed. The change was made rather silently going from MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.5.31. This affects all pages in the man/ directory of the source code. You can tell the changes have come during this short timeframe (5.5.30->5.5.31). The…
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