Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT
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Msg-id 937d27e10910260840s1d28aab2o799f2c58d14dfb1e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT  (Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
Responses Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jaime Casanova
<jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>
>> ISTM we should apply to OSI for approval of our licence, so we can then
>> refer to it as the PostgreSQL licence.
>>
>
> IMHO and not being a lawyer, this is the only reason for anyone to
> think in change our license i think...
> even in the case both licenses are "roughly equivalent", because users
> are afraid of any changes. if we simply change our license for no good
> reason we will have a ton of questions about if PostgreSQL is being
> sold just as MySQL was...

Changing the licence is *not* going to happen.

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