Re: Postgresql and multithreading

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha(at)lklug(dot)pdn(dot)ac(dot)lk>
Cc: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, anuradha(at)gnu(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgresql and multithreading
Date: 2002-10-16 05:46:53
Message-ID: 200210160546.g9G5krw08161@candle.pha.pa.us
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Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:40:47PM +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> >
> > > And a minor question is wheter it is legal to keep the _changes_ in such
> > > a project GPL?
> >
> > Do you mean 'relicence the forked copy'?
>
> Nope. To keep the `original' code licence as it is and to release the
> changes GPL? Is the question sane at first place?

That would be a pretty big mess, I think. People would add your patch
to our BSD code and it would be GPL. It could be done, of course.

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