Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From mlw
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL
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Msg-id 3C4B9D67.38F1D316@mohawksoft.com
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In response to PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL  (alavoor <alavoor@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> We currently have a BSD license, the archetypal open-source license.
> The GPL is similar to BSD, except that it has certain anti-closed source
> (proprietary) restrictions.  Many PostgreSQL developers question the
> need for such restrictions and we therefore will continue with the BSD
> license for the for-seeable future.

You are a talented man with a knack for simplifying the imponderables. ;-)


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