Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> ...
> > Tom, the word "uncomfortable" was removed.  Maybe you should reread it.
>
> Reread what? There are several threads going on at once afaict (or at
> least afa-my-mailer-ct). If we are comfortable with the current
> arrangement, then why bother trying to explain it ad infinitum?

Current wording proposal which is a mix from several people:

The above is the BSD license, the classic open-source license. While the
GPL has similar goals, PostgreSQL developers find the restrictions
imposed by the GPL to be unacceptable.  Since the BSD license has no
such restrictions, we like it and have no intention of changing it.

> I'm also not sure why this thread is on -general rather than on
> -hackers, but that has been true of lots of threads recently...

Not sure who added general but I did not remove it.

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