From: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL |
Date: | 2002-01-22 09:55:20 |
Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20020122175520.00d8f5b0@192.228.128.13 |
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I think it's necessary, just looking at my mailbox :).
Anyone who wants a GPL version of Postgresql can fork off.
Cheerio,
Link.
At 03:24 AM 22-01-2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> writes:
>> I've always considered it a point of recognition that we retain the
>> licensing that Berkeley was kind enough to give us. It *is* one of the
>> great licenses in the history of open software.
>
>Agreed entirely.
>
>> So why are we having to justify it?
>
>We're not "justifying" it; we're trying to compose a FAQ entry that
>might stave off a few askings of this all-too-frequently-asked question.
>FAQs exist to save people time, not to "justify" things. And this
>issue certainly has come up often enough to merit a FAQ entry.
>
>Basically, I think we want a reasonably polite version of "it's been
>discussed, it's been agreed to, it's not open to further discussion;
>now go away" ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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