"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> wrote:
>Greg Stark wrote:
>> imposed no such conditions. If Microsoft wanted to release a
>> Microsoft Postgresql under a completely proprietary license they
>> would be free
>>to do
>I have often wondered, in a completely off-topic and unproductive sort
>of way, if exactly that has not already been done by an unscrupulous or
>semi-scrupulous commercial vendor. This has been done in the past (a
>certain vendor's tcp/ip stack comes to mind), but I wonder if anyone
>ever pulled it with this project.
There's nothing unscrupulous about including BSD's TCP/IP stack in a
commercial product. In fact, the main reason we all use TCP/IP today is
because of the BSD license. It was just another protocol at one time.
If I remember correctly, Postgres was used as the basis for the Illustra
commercial product, which was bought by Informix and merged into Informix
Universal Server.
