On 10/03/2009, at 12:06 PM, Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
Then you're all set - as long as you use a frozen, unmodified version. The moment you turn it into a derivative work, you can't call it CouchDB anyrmore.
Sure, our way is clear. We aren't shipping CouchDB. Makes my CouchDB Ltd data point somewhat moot.
Interesting issue though, given tools such as GIT that make cherry picking patches so easy - we could construct an artifact by re- ordering or leaving out certain patches, that wouldn't be a derived work because every component is part of the official version.
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