Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL & the BSD License - Mailing list pgsql-general

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> Hi ...
>
> PostgreSQL, 4 years ago, became a Proudly Canadian Open Source Project,
> with developers around the world (16 out of ~21 contributing developers
> being non-US citizens).  Over those 4 years, we've had various people pop
> up suggesting "we should be under a GPL license", to which the almost
> instantaneous reply being "over our combined dead bodies".
>
...

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> PostgreSQL Data Base Management System (formerly known as Postgres95)
>
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>
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>
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Perfect.

Mike Mascari