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 937d27e10910270407u1eaafaf6h472aad9f5e72e9c9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> dpage@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) writes:
>> As Tom says though, the effect this has on users is zero. The licence
>> is still the same as its always been, regardless of what we say it is
>> based on or looks like.
>
> There may be a fairly miniscule one...
>
> There do exist "GPL zealots" that bash, as "not free" (in the sense
> that people are doubtless well aware of), stuff licensed under a "BSD
> license."

Having run into such people before, I was going to make some
obsersations on that comment, but on second though I think such
endangerment of one's own life is reckless and unnecessary :-p

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Dave Page
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