On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:19, pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> >> This makes me worried. That's the way we *used* to do things, but the
> >> sleazy IP lawyers are looking for anything with which they can create
> >> the
> >> impression of impropriety. The open source and free projects are ground
> >> zero for this crap.
> >>
> >> We *really* need to be careful.
> >
> > I assumed this tool was GPL and we just needed to avoid the GPL issue.
>
> I'm probably just being alarmist, but think about some IP lawyer buying up
> the entity that owns the GPL code, and suing end user's of PostgreSQL.
>
> This is similar to what is happening in Linux land with SCO.
>
> The best defense is to say, nope, we didn't copy your stuff, we
> implemented it ourselves based on the documentation.
by that argument, the license of documentation should matter too.. Isn't it?
Shridhar
