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Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>

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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, alavoor <alavoor@yahoo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-01-22T06:38:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> The above is the BSD license, the classic open-source license. While the
> GPL has similar goals, PostgreSQL developers find the restrictions
> imposed by the GPL to be unacceptable.  Since the BSD license has no
> such restrictions, we like it and have no intention of changing it.

*I* don't find GPL unacceptable. Some of my favorite software (present
company excepted of course) has it. But I am and have always been
satisfied that the BSD license (predating GPL as Don points out) serves
Postgres and PostgreSQL just fine.

I've always considered it a point of recognition that we retain the
licensing that Berkeley was kind enough to give us. It *is* one of the
great licenses in the history of open software. So why are we having to
justify it?

                       - Thomas