Re: [OT] Re: [HACKERS] User locks code

[Hannu Krosing]

Serguei Mokhov wrote:
> 
> and why the PostgreSQL project originally is being
> released under the BSD-like license? Just curious...

Berkeley usually releases their free projects under BSD licence ;)

There have been some discussion about changing it, but it has never got 
enough support.

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RE: [OT] Re: [HACKERS] User locks code

[Mikheev, Vadim]

> Because the code we got from Berkeley was BSD licensed, we
> can't change it, and because many of us like the BSD license
> better because we don't want to require them to release the
> source code, we just want them to use PostgreSQL. And we
> think they will release the source code eventually anyway.

And we think that no one will try to fork and commercialize
server code - todays, when SAP & InterBase open their DB
code, it seems as "no-brain".

Vadim

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Re: [OT] Re: [HACKERS] User locks code

[Bruce Momjian]

> > Yes, the weird part is that the BSD license is so lax (don't sue us)
> > that it is the addition of the GPL that changes the affect of the
> > license.  If you added a BSD license to a GPL'ed piece of code, the
> > effect would be near zero.
> 
> Sorry for asking this off-topic question, but I'm not sure I completely
> understand this license issue... How GPL, LGPL, and BSD are conflicting
> and or overlap, so that it causes such problems? AFAIK with the GPL
> one has to ship the source code along with the product every time, but
> under BSD it can be shipped without the source (that's why M$ doesn't attack
> BSD as it does for GPL), and why the PostgreSQL project originally is being
> released under the BSD-like license? Just curious...

Because the code we got from Berkeley was BSD licensed, we can't change
it, and because many of us like the BSD license better because we don't
want to require them to release the source code, we just want them to
use PostgreSQL.  And we think they will release the source code
eventually anyway.

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