Re: Copyright vs Licence

2021-05-10 Thread Michael Nolan
> What can and does happen is that a new version is released under a different license while the old version is made obsolete. It is often more than just 'made obsolete', updates to other parts of the OS (that are almost impossible to avoid installing) can make it so those older products either d

Re: Copyright vs Licence

2021-05-10 Thread cen
If MSFT is the sole holder of the copyright, then they can relicense it as they see fit. *I think* that they can only change the license on *newer* versions, so you'd be able to keep using the latest OSS version. That is correct. If I get a version 1 of your program under license A you can't

Re: Copyright vs Licence

2021-05-10 Thread Ron
On 5/10/21 4:34 AM, Vijaykumar Jain wrote: Hi All, I have been playing around with the pg_auto_failover extension by citus and have really enjoyed playing chaos with it. citusdata/pg_auto_failover: Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability (github.com)

Copyright vs Licence

2021-05-10 Thread Vijaykumar Jain
Hi All, I have been playing around with the pg_auto_failover extension by citus and have really enjoyed playing chaos with it. citusdata/pg_auto_failover: Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability (github.com) Now I