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