Bug #16106 Wrong information for --help option for commercial version for some utilities
Submitted: 30 Dec 2005 20:19 Modified: 13 Feb 2006 19:51
Reporter: Serge Kozlov Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.0, 4.1, 5.0, and 5.1 OS:Any (all)
Assigned to: Joerg Bruehe CPU Architecture:Any

[30 Dec 2005 20:19] Serge Kozlov
Description:
'comp_err' and 'mysqld_multi' show wrong information about license: GPL instead commercial software.

How to repeat:
./comp_err --help
./comp_err  (Compile errormessage)  Ver 2.0
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
...

./mysqld_multi --help
mysqld_multi version 2.15 by Jani Tolonen

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license.
...
[13 Jan 2006 15:25] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/1038
[16 Jan 2006 15:48] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/1149
[13 Feb 2006 19:44] Joerg Bruehe
Has been pushed to all versions in the meantime, from 4.0 up to 5.2.
(Sorry for the late entry.)

Not sure whether this needs to be documented.
[13 Feb 2006 19:51] Paul DuBois
No changelog entry needed.