Re: Table Spaces

pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> I'm probably just being alarmist, but think about some IP lawyer buying up
> the entity that owns the GPL code, and suing end user's of PostgreSQL.

You cannot retrospectively change the terms of a license unless the 
licensee agrees to it. If something is released GPL, then the GPL 
applies to that code and subsequent derivatives - that's the point of 
the GPL.

The new "owner" may change the terms of a license for new distributions 
of a package, assuming they actually own all the IP, and this is what I 
understand is the SCO issue. SCO claim that code that was distributed 
was done so without permission.

For an opposite effect, see the origins of the OpenSSH project; to 
summarise, folks found than an older version of a (at that time) vaguely 
licensed ssh was BSD licensed ans it was used as a base for a new 
product - namely OpenSSH.

rgds,
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Peter