Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Jan Wieck's name from - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>> With the BSD license, there really isn't any restriction to enforce, so
>>> the copyright owner is pretty meaningless.
>>
>> if nobody owns the code, then who has to be consulted to change the
>> license?
>
> You can't.  Berkeley keeps the license, and we add ourselves to it.  If
> someone else comes along, they can copyright it and add restrictions to
> their version.

'k, but what is wrong with "Portions copyright by ..." added to the 
appropriate files?  Why is that "A Bad Thing"?

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