On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:53 AM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > What made PostgreSQL attractive to those companies in the first place > was a known lack of need to have Extensive Conversations with Legal™ > about licensing and other financial/IP matters.
If you think that the lack of a CLA and a patent grant never causes extensive conversations with legal, I am quite certain that you are incorrect. I know of multiple instances where this has been a concern. Other open source projects even more prominent and successful than PostgreSQL have done these things. You (and some others) seem confident that we know better, an attitude that I just don't understand. It's not as if we have some blue ribbon panel coming up with best practices which we then implement. We're just doing the same thing that we have been doing for 20+ years because that's the way we've always done it. It's probably not a bad process, because it's gotten us this far and this is a pretty cool place to be, but processes can involve and get better, just as the code itself has done. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
