Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT

It's not a perfect match to MIT, but it is close. We (-core) are
already actively working on this issue to find the most appropriate
way forward.

On 10/25/09, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:
>
> Background info: Fedora/Red Hat folks (not Tom...) changed license in
> PostgreSQL spec file from BSD to MIT with the following notice:
>
> # PG considers their license to be simplified BSD, but it's more nearly
> MIT
>
> Our license wording fits perfectly to MIT, if I'm not wrong. However, we
> always advertise ourselves as using BSD license.
>
> Personally I don't think it is a big issue, but eventually I'd like to
> clarify our license in our website.
>
> ...so that I and Tom will use same License tags ;)
>
> Regards,
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