Re: LGPL

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LGPL
Date: 2005-06-15 02:20:05
Message-ID: 42AF9055.1050000@dunslane.net
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

>John Hansen wrote:
>
>
>>What about GPL ?
>>I assume that's out of the question!
>>
>>
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>If we add some GPL code, the entire binary becomes GPL, and that
>prevents closed-source commercial versions from being produced.
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>

When I went searching for some code to make a directory path in initdb,
I carefully avoided all the GPL versions, which is why I picked the code
from NetBSD. Anyone taking code from elsewhere to use in PostgreSQL
should a) acknowledge the source and b) be aware of this issue.

cheers

andrew

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