Re: PostgreSQL on Windows [Viruschecked]

Robert Treat wrote:
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> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:19, Patric Bechtel wrote:
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> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:06:22 +0100, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
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> > This "good" person on the list reached a beta of the 7.2 server around,
> > so no REAL prob. It's some porting effort from multera.
> > But AFAIK PostgreSQL is GPL'ed, so it is not allowed to modify and
> > sell only? So ANY copy of whom ever modified PostgreSQL HAS to be free,
> > or am I wrong? So how can it be pirated?
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> PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD license, so people can make
> changes to the code and keep them closed source. AFAIK this is what
> dbexperts has done, so someone that used their source code to make there
> own distribution would be pirating the software.

First of all, I think dbExperts did no native Port. I have the 7.2
version of dbExperts PostgreSQL on the shelf. The dbxlibs.dll is
considerably smaller and contains only 37 occurences of the string
"cygwin" - an original cygwin1.dll contains 185.

But as tou said, PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD license, so it is
not our problem.


Jan


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