First of all let me say that from such incredible hackers as the PostgreSQL people I'd have expected the ability to find my email address and maybe keep me or (even better) the psycopg mailing list in CC. That would have avoided a lot of confusion both on the license and the status of psycopg2. If you don't feel too offended by reading this incipit then we're ready to go on and try ot have a useful discussion (oh, yes, I can read and write basic english so I won't need any translator.) Btw, I was at FOSDEM as probably other PostgreSQL people were and all this could have been discussed while drinking a couple of beers if only someone cared to contact me.
First point, the license. It started as GPL2+ and sort of grow off of various comments and user needs. I agree that some of the reasons for such a complex license don't exist anymore and we're ready for a change. Note that I strongly don't want a final user to receive a closed, proprietary version of psycopg2 without the ability to switch (if she wants) to the "official" version released as free software. But I also understand that lots of people just want to keep their software proprietary (the current license already allows that). So the logical choice is plain LGPL3. I am open to motivated suggestions about other licenses but I'll ignore such crap as "BSD is more open than LGPL". Second point, the technical discussion about psycopg2 features and bugs. We have a mailing list, so please subscribe to it and write there any comments or requests about the code. The list is alive and nobody ever complained to not have received an answer. Finally, I am really happy that after years during which psycopg2 was used in a lot of projects by a lot of different users eventually the PostgreSQL people noted it. ;) Have fun, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio <mailto:f...@initd.org> <jid:f...@jabber.linux.it> DISCLAIMER. If I receive a message from you, you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient". 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on USENET or the WWW. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.
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