From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT |
Date: | 2009-10-26 13:13:23 |
Message-ID: | 937d27e10910260613i60ed4d4fn337a982fbdb884a8@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 22:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Otherwise I'm not sure it matters.
>
> If that were true, why did Red Hat lawyers do this?
Because they categorise licences to help their users. It's just a label.
> ISTM we should apply to OSI for approval of our licence, so we can then
> refer to it as the PostgreSQL licence. That then avoids any situation
> that might allow someone to claim some injunctive relief of part of the
> licence because of it being widely misdescribed.
Already in hand.
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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PGDay.EU 2009 Conference: http://2009.pgday.eu/start
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