On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 04:34, Justin Clift wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > <snip> > > > Nope. To keep the `original' code licence as it is and to release the > > > changes GPL? Is the question sane at first place? > > > > That would be a pretty big mess, I think. People would add your patch > > to our BSD code and it would be GPL. It could be done, of course. > > Don't think so. The patches would be "derived code" that only exist > because of the BSD licensed PostgreSQL base. > > Being "derived code" they'd have to be released as BSD and GPL wouldn't > enter the picture, regardless if they're released separately as add-on > patches or not. >
I'm pretty sure BSD allows you to relicense derived code as you see fit. However, any derived project that was released GPL would have a hell of a time ever getting put back into the main source (short of relicensing). Robert Treat ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
