Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

From: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, alavoor <alavoor(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL
Date: 2002-01-22 10:42:29
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.40.0201220541590.10205-100000@paprika.michvhf.com
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > The above is the BSD license, the classic open-source license. While the
> > GPL has similar goals, PostgreSQL developers find the restrictions
> > imposed by the GPL to be unacceptable. Since the BSD license has no
> > such restrictions, we like it and have no intention of changing it.
>
> *I* don't find GPL unacceptable. Some of my favorite software (present
> company excepted of course) has it. But I am and have always been
> satisfied that the BSD license (predating GPL as Don points out) serves
> Postgres and PostgreSQL just fine.

And now you know why I wanted the word "many" in there.

Vince.
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