"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most
>> desirable of any Open Source license and gives you the right to use
>> PostgreSQL in your commercial apps without worry.
> While I'm a big fan of the BSD license (for varied reasons) I think that
> OpenSource hardliners like RMS would argue that the BSD license is *NOT*
> in the true spirit of OpenSource *BECAUSE* of what you list as a bonus
> of it ... the locking down of benefits reaped from OpenSource not getting
> back into the stream.
The quoted article knocked *both* GPL and BSD as being "too open". Too
open for whom, he didn't say. The rest of the article is at about the
same quality level :-( I have seldom seen such a sterling example of
cluelessness combined with FUD-spouting.
regards, tom lane
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