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Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

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From: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: alavoor <alavoor@yahoo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-01-21T04:47:35Z
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> We currently have a BSD license, the archetypal open-source license.
> The GPL is similar to BSD, except that it has certain anti-closed source
> (proprietary) restrictions.  Many PostgreSQL developers question the
> need for such restrictions and we therefore will continue with the BSD
> license for the for-seeable future.

You are a talented man with a knack for simplifying the imponderables. ;-)