On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >> I'm not a lawyer and I make no judgement on how solid a practice this >>> is but that's VMware doesn't seem to be doing anything special here. >>> They can retain copyright ownership of their contributions as long as >>> they're happy releasing it under the Postgres copyright. Ideally they >>> wold also be happy with a copyright notice that includes all of the >>> PGDG just to reduce the maintenance headache. > > Many other projects also take this approach: Linux Kernel, Drizzle, etc. > There's some legal advantages, as well as disadvantages, in having the > copyright rest with the original contributors. Mostly, it prevents > relicensing of the whole project.
No it doesn't - it just makes it a pain in the arse (I know, I've done it). -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
