Re: PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL

I think it's necessary, just looking at my mailbox :).

Anyone who wants a GPL version of Postgresql can fork off.

Cheerio,
Link.

At 03:24 AM 22-01-2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:
>> I've always considered it a point of recognition that we retain the
>> licensing that Berkeley was kind enough to give us. It *is* one of the
>> great licenses in the history of open software.
>
>Agreed entirely.
>
>> So why are we having to justify it?
>
>We're not "justifying" it; we're trying to compose a FAQ entry that
>might stave off a few askings of this all-too-frequently-asked question.
>FAQs exist to save people time, not to "justify" things.  And this
>issue certainly has come up often enough to merit a FAQ entry.
>
>Basically, I think we want a reasonably polite version of "it's been
>discussed, it's been agreed to, it's not open to further discussion;
>now go away" ...
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
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