Re: [HACKERS] Re: Revised Copyright: is this more palatable?

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Richard Poole <richard(dot)poole(at)vi(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Revised Copyright: is this more palatable?
Date: 2000-07-07 05:28:37
Message-ID: 39656A85.4C86AA56@alumni.caltech.edu
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> My personal opinion is to replace the BSD License of 1996 with the BSD
> License of today (and keep up with changes to it), as it has been adopt'd
> by other Open Source Projects ... as is provided on

We can't do this *exactly*: afaict we will need to ship the original UCB
license along with the new license, since that original license required
that it continue to travel with the code. We can't unilaterally
substitute another, similar, license.

- Thomas

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