Re: Rebranding PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rebranding PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 8825.1132161626@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Rebranding PostgreSQL  (<john.bender@hushmail.com>)
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<john.bender@hushmail.com> writes:
> In our effort to distribute PostgreSQL to our customers, our higher
> ups would like to reduce the visibility that it is indeed
> PostgreSQL for a number of reasons at a few of our customer sites
> (particularly because these particular customers are very wary of
> open source).

> I know the license allows rebranding, but is there a document
> anywhere that specifies just what you have to do to do it? Is it as
> simple as regexing strings in the source, compiling, and renaming
> the exectuables? Or is it fraught with twisty little passages?

The license may allow it, but you really need a fair amount of chutzpah
to expect that people help you with it ...

            regards, tom lane

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