From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | RE: PostgreSQL & the BSD License |
Date: | 2000-07-10 12:38:44 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0007100938090.3314-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Philip Warner wrote:
> At 08:24 10/07/00 -0400, Robert D. Nelson wrote:
> >
> >Stupid question time: BSD allows forking of the code base, perhaps to
> >proprietary. If going proprietary, I would imagine you could change the
> >license. So why can't we have a "license fork"?
> >
>
> I'll ask, but I think he'll say that the license applies to the source; if
> a commercial fork was made, then they are free to hide the source. But if
> they ever release the source, then it has to go under the BSD again.
Actually, my understanding is that even if a commercial fork was made, the
original license has to be visible *somewhere*, even if its just the
COPYRIGHT file itself ...
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