Folks,
>>> The real question is, "is it proprietary". If it is even partially
>>> closed source then it really doesn't belong in the "postgresql family
>>> product" unless we also include MPP and Replicator.
>> You know what I mean :-). And all of EDB-Postgres is open source,
>> including the funky little MySQL migrator tool in the latest builds.
>
> Uh, doesn't the installer use a commercial product that isn't open
> source? Does requiring non-open source tools to build something make it
> non-open source? Postgres requires a C compiler that can be open or
> closed source so I don't know if that helps clarify things.
I don't think any of this is relevant for the News page. The question
is, will the person sending me the press release be a paid PR person, or
an OSS developer? We treat the two differently because they're going to
send us different sorts of news at different intervals.
For example, I would treat EDB-Postgres as "commercial" because they
send us formal press releases every 3 weeks, which often need
significant re-writing to target our developers. On the other hand, if
we get anything from OpenRPT it's just a release announcement, maybe
once a year, so we can treat them like an "PostgreSQL Family" OSS project.
So it's not commercial vs. open source *product*, it's commercial vs.
open source *news*.
--Josh Berkus
