Tom Lane wrote:
> "Chris Travers" <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com> writes:
> > Also, I am a little confused by Tom's statement that we don't have the right
> > to modify the license.
>
> I don't see what's confusing about it. Our implicit contract with
> contributors (past and present) is that we'd distribute their work under
> the terms of the same license they saw when they contributed. Altering
> the license without their agreement is breaking faith.
>
> All of the arguments about license changes have been gone over in great
> detail in the archives (I think the last major go-round on the topic was
> in the summer of 2000). No one who has been around long enough to
> remember those flame wars is interested in re-opening the topic. Not
> even just to move a comma.
What we could do is add a blurb on our web site or in the FAQ clarifying
this issue.
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