Re: License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

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Doug Quale wrote:
| Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
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|>The FSF characterizes the PostgreSQL license as being "an X11 style
|>license."  They felt a need to distinguish between different
|>variations of licenses that are called 'BSD licenses.'
|>
|>The FSF web site then compares various variations on "BSD licenses,"
|>considering that there are some that they deem to be "free" (in their
|>terms), and that there are others that they deem to _NOT_ be "free"
|>(again in their terms).
|
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| No, that's not what the FSF says.  All the BSD licenses are considered
| free by the FSF. (Look at the web page yourself.)  Most BSD licenses
| are compatible with the GPL, but the original BSD license contains a
| problematic advertising clause that makes it incompatible with the
| GPL.
|
| The Postgres license is a free software license that is GPL
| compatible.

Where GPL compatible means (possibly among other things) that I can get
a BSD-licensed Postgresql and turn it into a GPL-licensed MyPostgresql ?

Not that I would, just curious. And even if I did, it would be a severly
castrated postgresql, as the history of the "My" particle suggests :))
~ - sorry I couldn't resist.

Cheers,
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Radu-Adrian Popescu
CSA, DBA, Developer
Aldratech Ltd.
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