On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not a lawyer and I make no judgement on how solid a practice this
>>> is but that's VMware doesn't seem to be doing anything special here.
>>> They can retain copyright ownership of their contributions as long as
>>> they're happy releasing it under the Postgres copyright. Ideally they
>>> wold also be happy with a copyright notice that includes all of the
>>> PGDG just to reduce the maintenance headache.
>
> Many other projects also take this approach: Linux Kernel, Drizzle, etc.
> There's some legal advantages, as well as disadvantages, in having the
> copyright rest with the original contributors. Mostly, it prevents
> relicensing of the whole project.
No it doesn't - it just makes it a pain in the arse (I know, I've done it).
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