Ouch :)
I did read the release, man. Sorry if that didnt come through in my
comments. I just wanted to advocate we stick to mentioning the
license in the "ABOUT" section rather than calling it out in every
announcement.
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On Sep 30, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Javier, Josh, Mitch, etc.:
>
>
>> How about instead looking at this issue by trying to define a
>> short statement about postgres which should be included in every
>> release,
>>
>
> You know, all of your feedback would be *much* more useful if you
> actually read the release I have up, currently. I'll repeat,
> because nobody on *this* thread has once referred to this fact:
>
> The "ABOUT POSTGRESQL" statement contains a mention of the BSD
> license and its business-friendliness.
>
> Now, all of you, please read the release and make comments on
> what's actually there, thanks.
>
> http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000047/85/release.txt
>
> The question is not whether we need to mention our license.
> That's already there. It's whether it needs more emphasis than
> it's already getting, like the phrase "released under the flexible
> BSD license" in the first paragraph.
>
> --Josh
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