At 11:59 AM 7/12/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:20:37 +0100
From: Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Lewis Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, samantha mahindrakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Rollback in Postgres
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 09:40 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Please don't put links to copyrighted material on our lists.
>
> That's an odd thing to say, given that virtually every link on our
> lists probably points to material copyrighted in some way.

Prudence is all I ask for. We don't need to provide additional
advertising for others, nor do we wish to embroil ourselves in
accusations over copyright violations.

I don't want to pile more wood on the fire, but I think I can see both sides to this. I believe this is not so much copyright violation concern, but if the Pg team releases some cool feature relating to rollbacks down-the-road that is vaguely similar to Oracle's system, reducing the amount of discussion about Oracle's features on this list would reduce Oracle's ability to claim that the feature was a direct appropriation.

That said (and IANAL), I think posting links to for-profit and/or copyrighted websites is really important in general for the list. There's a lot of good information out there and I think it's not so great if this list were to limit itself only to public domain and open copyright documentation for consideration.

Just two more cents from the peanut gallery on a Saturday afternoon,

Steve


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