Re: [ANNOUNCE] Re: [HACKERS] proposed improvements to PostgreSQL license

-On [20000704 08:00], Thomas Lockhart (lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu) wrote:
>> I think this is a bad idea for the following reasons:
>> 1) It is trying to be a GPL in what it is trying to achieve without
>> actually being well thought out. Any person who "submits" modifications
>> must do so under the same licence. Submits to what or whom?
>
>It is *not* trying to be GPL. It is trying to be BSD, while extending
>liability protection to the current cast of developers, who are (I'm
>pretty sure) not covered in any of the wording of the UCB-generated
>license.

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Seems pretty clear to me.  ``In no event shall the author or
contributors be liable for any...''

Anyways, why do people always have to start whole threads on -announce?
Reply-to set.  Please honour it.

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