Re: List of PostgreSQL Forks

ISTR years back PostGIS was distributed as a complete bundle, with code
changes and under the GPL, which in most cases would qualify it as a fork; the
distribution method being important here. Certainly it would be enough to
confuse people.

BTW, if there is any possibility of it, I'd really love to see you guys
relicense under the BSD. There are a lot of positive upsides that would come
from a move like that.

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 20:44:35 Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Yes, strange definition. PostGIS is an add-on to PostgreSQL that uses
> the extensions points PostgreSQL defines. It's not a modified copy of
> PostgreSQL (a fork) and never was, it's always been built as an add-
> on, using the ./contrib tree as a model.
>
> On Sep 29, 5:39 pm, l(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pcorp(dot)us ("Paragon Corporation") wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > Your idea of calling PostGIS a sort of fork seems a little odd.  Isn't'
> > that like calling any GPL software you use within your database a fork.
> > PostGIS doesn't even do anything by itself.
> >
> > On a side note --  I would like to say there are other reasons PostGIS is
> > not included in thePostgreSQLcore besides the GPL license. We had
> > discussed this a while back and even if we were to go BSD, we would not
> > want to be included in the core because it would tie our release cycle
> > too closely to thePostgreSQLrelease cycle and our PostGIS versions to
> > aPostgreSQLspecific version.  As a community we like our freedom of
> > releasing when we feel it is necessary to do so without having to worry
> > so much about what thePostgreSQLside of the fence is doing.  This may
> > change as we mature, but that's the way it stands.
> >
> > Paul, Mark and Kevin can correct me if I am wrong in my statements.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Regina
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-advocacy-ow(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >
> > [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-ow(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Devrim GÜNDÜZ
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:04 PM
> > To: Josh Berkus
> > Cc: pgsql-advoc(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy]ListofPostgreSQLForks
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 13:58 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > > Which license? Both parts are BSD licensed.
> > >
> > > Huh?  PostGIS has always been GPL.  Otherwise we'd be distributing it
> > > with the core code.
> >
> > Right, sorry.
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