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Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Jason Earl <jason.earl@simplot.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, alavoor <alavoor@yahoo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-01-21T18:59:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> >         3) encourages BSD license usage
> 
> And here it is! As hidden as this is, it is the problem. I do not think
> you have unanimous agreement, else these arguments would not keep coming
> up. As long as you are "promoting" BSD you will invite vigorous debate
> with the GPL camp. For the sake of the peace and respect for the GPL
> camp, I think the politics and religion of license should be relegated
> to personal opinion.

I merely meant that we should show BSD as a viable license, rather than
make excuses for it by saying it was chosen by someone long ago.  We
_do_ need to promote it within our own source tree.

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