| From: | "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but... |
| Date: | 2004-02-18 00:30:58 |
| Message-ID: | e56201b43c98c3d80cdfcd1df59fe072@biglumber.com |
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> > There`s certainly room for PostgreSQL to have a sub-motto something
> > like:
>
> > _PostgreSQL: Free software means no need to fear license audits._
>
> here`s something that Theo de Raadt says (in the context of OpenBSD)
> that seems apropos:
>
> "Free means free"
That is very ironic, considering it was a license audit that got PostgreSQL
yanked from the OpenBSD distribution, all because they have an (IMO) irrational
fear of being sued (by whom?) over a license that has held up for many,
many years. Thus, OpenBSD does not consider us "free".
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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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