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Re: Postgresql and multithreading

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

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@lklug.pdn.ac.lk>
Cc: Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, anuradha@gnu.org
Date: 2002-10-16T05:46:53Z
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Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:40:47PM +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> > 
> > > And a minor question is wheter it is legal to keep the _changes_ in such
> > > a project GPL?
> > 
> > Do you mean 'relicence the forked copy'?
> 
> Nope.  To keep the `original' code licence as it is and to release the
> changes GPL?  Is the question sane at first place?

That would be a pretty big mess, I think.  People would add your patch
to our BSD code and it would be GPL.  It could be done, of course.

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