Re: License question[VASCL:A1077160A86]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:14:03PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:49:06PM +1000, Neil Dugan wrote:
> >
> > If I was to develop a 'C' project that only used the libpg.so library and the
> > rest was my own stuff would I need to preserve the copyright to somehow?
>
> Yes, because libpg.so is licensed under the BSD license.  Note that
> you can do this in a COPYRIGHT file.  It just has to be "in all
> copies", whatever that means.

AFAIK, this would only apply if he was actually distributing libpq.so,
which would be a bad thing for technical reasons anyway.

> People are actually slightly oversimplifying, because when you
> distribute you also have to distribute two paragraphs.
>
> The license is available, among other places, from this URL:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence
>
> It has _got_ to be the easiest piece of legalese you'll ever

Not easy enough to avoid confusion though. :)
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