| From: | "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tony Caduto" <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Postgres General List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"? |
| Date: | 2008-01-31 21:04:53 |
| Message-ID: | b35603930801311304i312e6ebfo9d401b38732644fb@mail.gmail.com |
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On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> wrote:
> The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most
> desirable of any Open Source license and gives you the right to use
> PostgreSQL in your commercial apps without worry.
While I'm a big fan of the BSD license (for varied reasons) I think that
OpenSource hardliners like RMS would argue that the BSD license is *NOT*
in the true spirit of OpenSource *BECAUSE* of what you list as a bonus
of it ... the locking down of benefits reaped from OpenSource not getting
back into the stream.
Cheers,
Andrej
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