Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary
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In response to Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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| Sorry, someone had told me patents, but it is actually copyright because

>the GPL uses copyright law.  They are saying anything that talks to GPL
>software has to be GPL, and that includes a reverse-engineered client
>library.
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Yes I did see that. Actually from what I know of the GPL, this could very
well be the case.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake







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