RE: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL & the BSD License

[Philip Warner]

At 08:24 10/07/00 -0400, Robert D. Nelson wrote:
>
>Stupid question time: BSD allows forking of the code base, perhaps to 
>proprietary. If going proprietary, I would imagine you could change the 
>license. So why can't we have a "license fork"?
>

I'll ask, but I think he'll say that the license applies to the source; if
a commercial fork was made, then they are free to hide the source. But if
they ever release the source, then it has to go under the BSD again.


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