> >
> >We could get perpetual rights to the code as integrated into our code.
> >Also, if they change something, we could always take it as our own and
> >keep it working for us. I think we would need something like that.
> >
>
> One of the often-stated virtues of PGSQL is that it is easy for a company
> to take the source and go commercial. If you start integrating 'special
> license greements' into the development, then that advantage is severly
> reduced.
>
> A commercial operator has to form an agreement with sleepycat or rewrite
> the storage manager. Unless sleepycat grant a completely open license to
> PGSQL and all it's commercial descendants in perpetuity, it seems you may
> be removing one of the seeling points of PGSQL.
Yes, something like this would be required.
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