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  1. MariaDB Server
  2. MDEV-11242

MariaDB Server releases contains promotion of MariaDB Corporation A.b. services, they should be removed or disclosed

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    • 10.1.20

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      I downloaded MariaDB 10.1.18 source code from https://downloads.mariadb.org/ (not from mariadb.com).

      I compiled it with:

      cmake . -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release -DWITH_SSL=system

      My build contains advertising for a company called "MariaDB Corporation Ab.":

      Support MariaDB development by buying support/new features from MariaDB
      		 
      Corporation Ab. You can contact us about this at sales@mariadb.com.
      		 
      Alternatively consider joining our community based development effort:
      		 
      http://mariadb.com/kb/en/contributing-to-the-mariadb-project/

      In particular, the "us" is very troublesome. This is a bug, either that should not be there, and show instead:

      The MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit incorporated in Delaware, USA
      		 
      funded by both corporate sponsors and individual donors. Please
      		 
      consider supporting MariaDB Server development donating to:
      		 
      https://mariadb.org/donate/
      		 
      Alternatively consider joining our community based development effort:
      		 
      http://mariadb.com/kb/en/contributing-to-the-mariadb-project/

      If there is some promotion/sponsorship deal between the MariaDB Foundation and the MariaDB Corporation A.b., and that helps paying the releases, this should be disclosed (it is illegal in many countries to promote products without disclosure). I am ok with ads if they bring value to the product.

      Also, there is no problem with MariaDB Corporation releasing their own packages advertising its company (Oracle does, Percona does), but it should be done by themselves.

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          jcrespo Jaime Crespo created issue -
          jcrespo Jaime Crespo made changes -
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          Description I downloaded MariaDB 10.1.18 source code from https://downloads.mariadb.org/ (not from mariadb.com).

          I compiled it with:
          <code>
          cmake . -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release -DWITH_SSL=system
          </code>

          My build contains advertising for a company called "MariaDB Corporation Ab.":

          <code>
          Support MariaDB development by buying support/new features from MariaDB
          Corporation Ab. You can contact us about this at sales@mariadb.com.
          Alternatively consider joining our community based development effort:
          http://mariadb.com/kb/en/contributing-to-the-mariadb-project/
          </code>

          In particular, the "us" is very troublesome. This is a bug, either that should not be there, and show instead:
          <code>
          The MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit incorporated in Delaware, USA
          funded by both corporate sponsors and individual donors. Please
          consider supporting MariaDB Server development donating to:
          https://mariadb.org/donate/
          Alternatively consider joining our community based development effort:
          http://mariadb.com/kb/en/contributing-to-the-mariadb-project/
          </code>

          If there is some promotion/sponsorship deal between the MariaDB Foundation and the MariaDB Corporation A.b., and that helps paying the releases, this should be disclosed (it is illegal in many countries to promote products without disclosure). I am ok with ads if they bring value to the product.

          Also, there is no problem with MariaDB Corporation releasing their own packages advertising its company (Oracle does, Percona does), but it should be done by themselves.           		I downloaded MariaDB 10.1.18 source code from https://downloads.mariadb.org/ (not from mariadb.com).

          I compiled it with:
          {code}
          cmake . -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release -DWITH_SSL=system
          {code}

          My build contains advertising for a company called "MariaDB Corporation Ab.":

          {code}
          Support MariaDB development by buying support/new features from MariaDB
          Corporation Ab. You can contact us about this at sales@mariadb.com.
          Alternatively consider joining our community based development effort:
          http://mariadb.com/kb/en/contributing-to-the-mariadb-project/
          {code}

          In particular, the "us" is very troublesome. This is a bug, either that should not be there, and show instead:
          {code}
          The MariaDB Foundation is a non-profit incorporated in Delaware, USA
          funded by both corporate sponsors and individual donors. Please
          consider supporting MariaDB Server development donating to:
          https://mariadb.org/donate/
          Alternatively consider joining our community based development effort:
          http://mariadb.com/kb/en/contributing-to-the-mariadb-project/
          {code}

          If there is some promotion/sponsorship deal between the MariaDB Foundation and the MariaDB Corporation A.b., and that helps paying the releases, this should be disclosed (it is illegal in many countries to promote products without disclosure). I am ok with ads if they bring value to the product.

          Also, there is no problem with MariaDB Corporation releasing their own packages advertising its company (Oracle does, Percona does), but it should be done by themselves.
          elenst Elena Stepanova made changes -
          Assignee Rasmus Johansson [ ratzpo ]
          mdcallag Mark Callaghan added a comment - - edited

          see https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blame/10.1/scripts/mysql_install_db.sh

          Before that it was asking you to buy support from SkySQL
          https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/48ed8ab2155b31d36358b2efd348f3036a294971

          I want to edit SHOW TABLE STATUS processing to include "please try MyRocks" in the output

          mdcallag Mark Callaghan added a comment - - edited see https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blame/10.1/scripts/mysql_install_db.sh Before that it was asking you to buy support from SkySQL https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/48ed8ab2155b31d36358b2efd348f3036a294971 I want to edit SHOW TABLE STATUS processing to include "please try MyRocks" in the output
          serg Sergei Golubchik added a comment -

          Yuck. That came from the text "Support MySQL by buying support/licenses from http://shop.mysql.com/" through a set of "change company name" commits (MySQL->Monty Program->SkySQL->MariaDB Corp).

          Instead it should've been, of course, removed (or, may be, changed to say Foundation). We'll fix it, thanks!

          serg Sergei Golubchik added a comment - Yuck. That came from the text "Support MySQL by buying support/licenses from http://shop.mysql.com/ " through a set of "change company name" commits (MySQL->Monty Program->SkySQL->MariaDB Corp). Instead it should've been, of course, removed (or, may be, changed to say Foundation). We'll fix it, thanks!
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Priority Major [ 3 ] Blocker [ 1 ]
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Affects Version/s 5.5 [ 15800 ]
          Affects Version/s 10.0 [ 16000 ]
          Affects Version/s 10.1 [ 16100 ]
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Fix Version/s 5.5 [ 15800 ]
          Fix Version/s 10.0 [ 16000 ]
          Fix Version/s 10.1 [ 16100 ]
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Assignee Rasmus Johansson [ ratzpo ] Sergei Golubchik [ serg ]
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Status Open [ 1 ] In Progress [ 3 ]
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Status In Progress [ 3 ] Stalled [ 10000 ]
          ratzpo Rasmus Johansson (Inactive) made changes -
          Sprint 10.1.20 [ 119 ]
          ratzpo Rasmus Johansson (Inactive) made changes -
          Rank Ranked lower
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Component/s Scripts & Clients [ 11002 ]
          Fix Version/s 5.5.54 [ 22307 ]
          Fix Version/s 10.0.29 [ 22312 ]
          Fix Version/s 10.1.20 [ 22112 ]
          Fix Version/s 5.5 [ 15800 ]
          Fix Version/s 10.0 [ 16000 ]
          Fix Version/s 10.1 [ 16100 ]
          Resolution Fixed [ 1 ]
          Status Stalled [ 10000 ] Closed [ 6 ]
          Eric_Herman Eric Herman added a comment -

          https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/0a4b508173a0cd32f329df3514bf34c2f2001317

          Eric_Herman Eric Herman added a comment - https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/0a4b508173a0cd32f329df3514bf34c2f2001317
          serg Sergei Golubchik made changes -
          Workflow MariaDB v3 [ 78219 ] MariaDB v4 [ 151194 ]

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