Re: proposed improvements to PostgreSQL license
Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Ron Peterson <rpeterson@yellowbank.com>
Cc: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-06T16:24:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote: > This has happened in PostgreSQL's own history. How long did it take > for the project to get picked up again? How long did it take for the > people who picked it up to familiarize themselves with the code? How > long did it take before the community at large developed any > confidence in the project's viability? How much talent was lost? > How many ideas were lost? Huh? When? I, and several others, picked up Postgres95 from the University of California at Berkeley, following the graduate studies of Andrew and Jolly, in 1996 ... there has been no copyright change since then (wish someone had mentioned soon that alther we didn't do any copyright changes, Berkeley did *sigh*) ... Prior to that, Postgres95 was a graduate project, that, if I recall correctly, Andrea and Jolly took on to move Postgres from a PostQuel based to an SQL based server, but that part of the history I may be wrong on ... Since '96, there has only been one development effort on PostgreSQL ... that I'm aware of ...