Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left?

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> > Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
> >> the point is that PostgreSQL is no GNU product, never has been and if someone
> >> intends to he shall do so after yanking out the contributions I made.
> > 
> > Note that when you released your contributions you did so under a license that
> > imposed no such conditions. If Microsoft wanted to release a Microsoft
> > Postgresql under a completely proprietary license they would be free to do so.
> > Likewise if someone wanted to release a GPL'd "GNU Postgresql" they could do
> > it. And nobody could force either to yank anyone's code.
> 
> I released my contributions under the BSD license. A license change is 
> only possible when accepted by the Copyright holder. I might have missed 
> something, but when did Microsoft get the Copyright of my code?

We allow companies to make commercial versions of PostgreSQL that use a
proprietary license, so I don't see you could prevent Microsoft from
doing the same.

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