| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, daveg <daveg(at)sonic(dot)net>, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, Stanislav Lacko <lacko(at)spacesystems(dot)sk>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump |
| Date: | 2009-02-08 04:31:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20090208043123.GE14740@fetter.org |
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:49:29PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> we need to add this to the "Features we do not want" section of our
>> todo list.
>
> "Proprietary compression algorithms, even with Postgresql-specific
> license exceptions"?
Considering that the entire project ships with a BSD license, which
very specifically allows use of all or any tiniest part of it with
(skipping some legalese) two restrictions: mention PGDG in the
copyright list, and don't sue us no matter what happens, any
"Postgresql-specific license exceptions" are equivalent to "that
algorithm is no longer proprietary" because any project could simply
use PostgreSQL's version and have done.
Cheers,
David.
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