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Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>

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From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, alavoor <alavoor@yahoo.com>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-01-22T01:54:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > The above is the BSD license, the classic open-source license. While the
> > GPL has similar goals, PostgreSQL developers find the restrictions
> > imposed by the GPL to be unacceptable.  Since the BSD license has no
> > such restrictions, we like it and have no intention of changing it.
>
> If you feel you must bother to mention this whole sordid topic somewhere
> in the documentation, I much prefer the already-suggested,
> non-judgemental wording (by Mitch Vincent and others) of something like:
>
>   Postgres has been developed and released under the BSD license
>   from its inception. Code contributed to the main distribution
>   is assumed to be, and must be, released under this same license.
>
> Frankly, I'm not sure why I should be uncomfortable with GPL, and I'm
> not sure that a FAQ should presume to explain why I am, especially if I
> am not. But I *am* comfortable with the ground rules of PostgreSQL which
> have been there since the beginning and with which we have seen
> tremendous growth and maturity of the project and product. Good enough
> for me ;)

Tom, the word "uncomfortable" was removed.  Maybe you should reread it.

Vince.
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