== MariaDB == The Debian package of MySQL was first debianzed on 1997-04-12 by Christian Schwarz and ist maintained since 1999-04-20 by Christian Hammers . The MariaDB packages were initally made by http://ourdelta.org/, and are now managed by the MariaDB development team, maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net MariaDB can be downloaded from https://downloads.mariadb.org/ Copyright: According to the file "COPYING" all parts of this package are licenced under the terms of the GNU GPL Version 2 of which a copy is available in /usr/share/common-licenses. To allow free software with other licences than the GPL to link against the shared library, special terms for "derived works" are granted in the README file of MySQL 5.5, as follows: > MySQL FOSS License Exception > We want free and open source software applications under certain > licenses to be able to use specified GPL-licensed MySQL client > libraries despite the fact that not all such FOSS licenses are > compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License. > Therefore there are special exceptions to the terms and conditions > of the GPLv2 as applied to these client libraries, which are > identified and described in more detail in the FOSS License > Exception at > . The manual had to be removed as it is not free in the sense of the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). == innotop == Copyright 2006-2009, Baron Schwartz URL: http://innotop.sourceforge.net License: > This software is dual licensed, either GPL version 2 or Artistic License. > > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License and the Artistic License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/'.