Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Misplaced modifier in Postgresql license

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:50:40PM -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:50:23 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Breen Ouellette <the.man@breeno.net> writes:
> > > The result of this ambiguity is that the
> > > latest CD release of OpenBSD (3.4) no longer includes Postgresql
>
> > We are not changing the license text we inherited from Berkeley.
> > We do not have the right to, nor any interest in doing so.
>
> but you can consult with the attorneys for the Regents. they have
> changed the license at times, and have passed those changes on
> to other BSD licensed projects (e.g., when they removed the
> advertising clause the advertising clause was also removed from
> all the code in the OpenBSD distribution that was inherited from
> the original BSD project.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that also require permission from
every other contributer to PostgreSQL ever? I mean, hypothetically there
might be someone in there who disagrees with the change.

Not even the Regents can backdate a licence chage and have it affect all
subsequent contributions.
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