Re: PHP stuff - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: PHP stuff
Date
Msg-id 200503171854.02316.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: PHP stuff  ("Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>)
Responses Re: PHP stuff  ("Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>)
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Mark Woodward wrote:
> As the copyright owner, "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group,"
> has the right to license the documentation any way they see fit. For
> PHP to sub-license the documentation, it legally has to be transfered
> in writing. Verbal agreements are not valid.

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group is not an incorporated body, so 
it cannot engage in legal transactions.  Only the individual copyright 
holders can do that.

What this all boils down to is this: If the PHP project will only accept 
contributions if the copyright is signed over to them, then they will 
not, as a practical matter, be able to incorporate works that are 
derived from PostgreSQL software.

(Note that I am not opposed to someone else copying PostgreSQL software; 
I wouldn't be in this project otherwise.  I'm just explaining the 
situation.)

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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