Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
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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