Re: possible license violations

On Thu, Jun  3, 2021 at 06:08:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Thu, Jun  3, 2021 at 09:31:15PM +0000, tom.beacon wrote:
> >> What is the best contact with whom to discuss possible violations of the pgsql
> >> license?
> 
> > Uh, good question, and I could not find the answer easily.  I would
> > report it to the owners of the Postgres trademark:
> 
> >     https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/trademarks/
> >     board@lists.postgres.ca
> 
> A point worth making here is that the Postgres *license* is so lax
> that it's basically impossible to violate, unless maybe by redistributing
> the code sans COPYRIGHT file.  And even if somebody were doing that,
> I doubt how much we'd care.

I have received private reports of our COPYRIGHT not being properly
included in distributions so I am sensitive to those possible
violations, and I assume the trademark holders would deal with those as
well.

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