From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL & the BSD License |
Date: | 2000-07-07 14:21:37 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071120350.19665-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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Paperwork has already been sent off, gears are in motion :)
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 eisentrp(at)csis(dot)gvsu(dot)edu wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > as mentioned by another person, it appears that the problem isn't with the
> > copyright, the problem is us :( BSD *has* already done all the revisons
> > to the copyright, we've just never upgraded ours to match theirs ... I
> > posted, in another thread, a proposed updated COPYRIGHT file based off of
> > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html ...
>
> Notice how the letter you cited was addressed to all users of 4.4BSD, and
> not to the users of all software products that every came out of
> Berkeley. Just because some of them got to change their license doesn't
> mean that all the other packages suddenly get to choose what wording
> they'd like.
>
> The particular change was the removal of the "advertisement clause".
> Postgres doesn't have an advertisement clause.
>
> If you want to get word from the UCB that we are allowed to insert "AND
> ALL OTHER CONTRIBUTORS" at strategic places in the current text then we'd
> probably be served best. But until then we have to leave the UCB license
> untouched.
>
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut Sernanders vaeg 10:115
> peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net 75262 Uppsala
> http://yi.org/peter-e/ Sweden
>
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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