Re: [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin Licencing Changes - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Peter Galbavy
Subject Re: [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin Licencing Changes
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Msg-id 013401c321e1$fb5cff80$24e0a8c0@HATMADDER
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In response to Re: [ANNOUNCE] pgAdmin Licencing Changes  (Ed Carp <erc@pobox.com>)
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Ed Carp wrote:
> If by this you mean that existing versions of pgAdmin II already
> distributed will be relicensed, I'm not sure that action is lawful.
> Generally speaking, unilaterally attempting to change an already
> distributed product to another license, regardless if that license is
> more or less restrictive, has little if any basis in either law or
> court cases.

From the experience of the OpenSSH project, and the ability to utilise an
old 'BSD' licensed version of ssh, this appears to be the case.

I do not see any problem with the copyright owner re-issuing older versions
with a new license, but you *CANNOT* change the license on copies already
distributed.

Peter


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