Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:34, Don Baccus wrote:
> Not to mention the fact that anyone who chooses to take a look around
> the universe will find at least as many commercial entities contributing
> to well-known GPL'd software as to well-known BSD'd software.
>
> Oracle supports Linux, not xxxBSD. IBM supports Linux, not xxxBSD.

I'm not sure that this is because of license issues with GPL versus BSD.
Oracle's applications on Linux are released with a propritary license...
that runs on a (for the most part) GPL'd OS. IBM does release some code
under GPL, and tends not to under BSD, but also has applications that
run on Linux that are propritary license.

Yes, both Oracle and IBM (and Sun for that fact) support Linux more than
xxxBSD as operating systems, and they are more likely to release code
under GPL (Sun with OpenOffice, etc) but their support of Linux is more
market driven, not license driven. (

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Virtually,
Ned Wolpert <ned(dot)wolpert(at)knowledgenet(dot)com>

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