Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Woah here ... didn't Michael state that binary-only was okay, as long as
>> the source *was* available on the 'Net? ie. Enhydra can distribute their
>> binaries, as long as sources were still available on postgresql.org?
> But that limits companies from distributing binary-only versions where
> they don't want to give out the source.
The way I read it was that as long as *we* are making Postgres source
available, people using Postgres as a component wouldn't have to, nor
make their own source available which'd probably be the real issue.
OTOH, there'd still be a problem with distributing slightly-modified
versions of Postgres --- that might require a Sleepycat license.
On the whole this seems like a can of worms better left unopened.
We don't want to create questions about whether Postgres is free
or not.
regards, tom lane