| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, alavoor <alavoor(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL |
| Date: | 2002-01-21 14:03:09 |
| Message-ID: | 20020121100205.J91444-100000@earth.hub.org |
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> We currently have a BSD license, the archetypal open-source license.
> The GPL is similar to BSD, except that it has certain anti-closed source
> (proprietary) restrictions. Many PostgreSQL developers question the
> need for such restrictions and we therefore will continue with the BSD
> license for the for-seeable future.
GPL is kinda 'anti-open source' too, IMHO ... it puts restrictions on what
you can do with the source code, so it isn't *really* "free to do with as
you wish" ...
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