Re: beta testing version

Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>

From: "Vadim Mikheev" <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>
To: "Adam Haberlach" <adam@newsnipple.com>, "Don Baccus" <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
Cc: "Thomas Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-03T07:00:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> There is risk here.  It isn't so much in the fact that PostgreSQL, Inc
> is doing a couple of modest closed-source things with the code.  After
> all, the PG community has long acknowleged that the BSD license would
> allow others to co-op the code and commercialize it with no obligations.
> 
> It is rather sad to see PG, Inc. take the first step in this direction.
> 
> How long until the entire code base gets co-opted?

I totaly missed your point here. How closing source of ERserver is related
to closing code of PostgreSQL DB server? Let me clear things:

1. ERserver isn't based on WAL. It will work with any version >= 6.5

2. WAL was partially sponsored by my employer, Sectorbase.com,
not by PG, Inc.

Vadim