Re: PostgreSQL & the BSD License

Paperwork has already been sent off, gears are in motion :)


On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 eisentrp@csis.gvsu.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > as mentioned by another person, it appears that the problem isn't with the
> > copyright, the problem is us :(  BSD *has* already done all the revisons
> > to the copyright, we've just never upgraded ours to match theirs ... I
> > posted, in another thread, a proposed updated COPYRIGHT file based off of
> > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html ...
>
> Notice how the letter you cited was addressed to all users of 4.4BSD, and
> not to the users of all software products that every came out of
> Berkeley. Just because some of them got to change their license doesn't
> mean that all the other packages suddenly get to choose what wording
> they'd like.
>
> The particular change was the removal of the "advertisement clause".
> Postgres doesn't have an advertisement clause.
>
> If you want to get word from the UCB that we are allowed to insert "AND
> ALL OTHER CONTRIBUTORS" at strategic places in the current text then we'd
> probably be served best. But until then we have to leave the UCB license
> untouched.
>
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders vaeg 10:115
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>

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