Re: [HACKERS] Copyright - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Copyright
Date
Msg-id 20000129103655.A1966@fam-meskes.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Copyright  ("Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>)
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:07:43PM -0600, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> Ah, corporate assets? What if someone bought out PostgreSQL, Inc., for
> a huge sum of money. They'd get control of anything PostgreSQL, Inc.
> has control over. One can't buy out a non-profit organization.

Which brings up the question whether PostgreSQL Inc. is a profit or a
non-profit organizationn.

AFARC that's the way Debian solved this problem, by forming a non-profit
organization name Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Inc.

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