Re: License clarification: BSD vs MIT

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 22:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Otherwise I'm not sure it matters.
>
> If that were true, why did Red Hat lawyers do this?

Because they categorise licences to help their users. It's just a label.

> ISTM we should apply to OSI for approval of our licence, so we can then
> refer to it as the PostgreSQL licence. That then avoids any situation
> that might allow someone to claim some injunctive relief of part of the
> licence because of it being widely misdescribed.

Already in hand.

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