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RE: [OT] Re: User locks code

Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>

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From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
To: "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Serguei Mokhov <sa_mokho@alcor.concordia.ca>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-24T17:31:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Because the code we got from Berkeley was BSD licensed, we
> can't change it, and because many of us like the BSD license
> better because we don't want to require them to release the
> source code, we just want them to use PostgreSQL. And we
> think they will release the source code eventually anyway.

And we think that no one will try to fork and commercialize
server code - todays, when SAP & InterBase open their DB
code, it seems as "no-brain".

Vadim