Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...
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Msg-id e56201b43c98c3d80cdfcd1df59fe072@biglumber.com
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In response to Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...  (Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>)
Responses Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...  (Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>)
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> > There`s certainly room for PostgreSQL to have a sub-motto something
> > like:
>
> >   _PostgreSQL: Free software means no need to fear license audits._
>
> here`s something that Theo de Raadt says (in the context of OpenBSD)
> that seems apropos:
>
>    "Free means free"

That is very ironic, considering it was a license audit that got PostgreSQL
yanked from the OpenBSD distribution, all because they have an (IMO) irrational
fear of being sued (by whom?) over a license that has held up for many,
many years. Thus, OpenBSD does not consider us "free".

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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