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Re: [HACKERS] Re: Revised Copyright: is this morepalatable?

Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>

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From: teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød )
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Cc: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL GENERAL <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-05T14:30:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:

> This is not something new. SunOS, AIX, HPUX, etc. all have (at
> one time or another) considerable BSD roots. And yet FreeBSD
> still exists... All GPL does is 'poison' the pot by prohibiting
> commercial spawns which may leverage the code.

GPL doesn't prohibit commercial spawns - it just requires you to send
the source along.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.