- applied the required changes to create the FOSS License exception

   file "EXCEPTIONS" and include it in the source and binary 
   distributions

Build-tools/mysql-copyright

@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ sub main
     # on the toplevel of the directory instead. file 'PUBLIC' shouldn't
     # exist in the new mysql distributions, but let's be sure..
     unlink("$destdir/PUBLIC", "$destdir/README");
+    unlink("$destdir/COPYING", "$destdir/EXCEPTIONS");
     copy("$WD/Docs/MySQLEULA.txt", "$destdir");
     
     # remove readline subdir and update configure accordingly

Docs/Makefile.am

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST =		$(noinst_SCRIPTS) $(BUILT_SOURCES) mysqld_error.txt \
 
 all:			$(targets) txt_files
 
-txt_files:		../INSTALL-SOURCE ../COPYING \
+txt_files:		../INSTALL-SOURCE ../COPYING ../EXCEPTIONS \
 			INSTALL-BINARY ../support-files/MacOSX/ReadMe.txt
 
 CLEAN_FILES:		$(BUILD_SOURCES)
@@ -202,7 +202,10 @@ INSTALL-BINARY:	mysql.info $(GT)
 	perl -w $(GT) mysql.info "Installing binary" "Installing source" > $@
 
 ../COPYING:		mysql.info $(GT)
-	perl -w $(GT) mysql.info "GPL license" "Function Index" > $@
+	perl -w $(GT) mysql.info "GPL license" "MySQL FOSS License Exception" > $@
+
+../EXCEPTIONS: mysql.info $(GT)
+	perl -w $(GT) mysql.info "MySQL FOSS License Exception" "Function Index" > $@
 
 ../support-files/MacOSX/ReadMe.txt:	mysql.info $(GT)
 	perl -w $(GT) mysql.info "Mac OS X installation" "NetWare installation" > $@

scripts/make_binary_distribution.sh

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ do
 done
 
 for i in COPYING COPYING.LIB README Docs/INSTALL-BINARY \
-         MySQLEULA.txt LICENSE.doc README.NW
+         EXCEPTIONS MySQLEULA.txt LICENSE.doc README.NW
 do
   if [ -f $i ]
   then

support-files/mysql.spec.sh

@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ fi
 %files server
 %defattr(-,root,root,0755)
 
-%doc COPYING README
+%doc COPYING EXCEPTIONS README 
 %doc Docs/manual.{html,ps,texi,txt}
 %doc Docs/manual_toc.html
 %doc support-files/my-*.cnf