On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Browne wrote:
Actually, the latter isn't so.
If Mammoth or Pervasive or such release their own release of PostgreSQL, nothing has historically mandated that they make that release available under the BSD license.
Presumably acceptance of the patent would change that.
You and I might not have individual objections to this situation, but one or another of the companies putting together PostgreSQL releases very well might.
But, there is nothing stop'ng them from replacing the ARC code with their own variant though ...
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