Re: GT.M database open sourced - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: GT.M database open sourced
Date
Msg-id 27037.974173468@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to GT.M database open sourced  (Ned Lilly <ned@greatbridge.com>)
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Ned Lilly <ned@greatbridge.com> writes:
> Is anybody familiar with this?
> http://news.excite.com:80/news/bw/001107/pa-sanchez

This strikes me as some people who hope to freeload off open-source
efforts, without having actually learned anything about how the
community works.  Did you catch this:

:  GT.M is currently available on the IBM RS/6000 AIX, Compaq Alpha/AXP Tru64
:  UNIX and Open VMS, HP Series 9000 HP-UX, Sun SPARC Solaris and x86
:  GNU/Linux. The release of GT.M as open source freeware applies only
:  to the x86 GNU/Linux platform.

Aside from pissing off those of us who use one of those other platforms
;-), there's the question of whether Sanchez actually thinks that people
are not going to be able to figure out how to port the code to non-x86-
Linux platforms... or does their "open source" license say you're not
allowed to do that?

            regards, tom lane

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