| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Jason Earl <jason(dot)earl(at)simplot(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>, alavoor <alavoor(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL Licence: GNU/GPL |
| Date: | 2002-01-21 18:59:39 |
| Message-ID: | 200201211859.g0LIxd328352@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > 3) encourages BSD license usage
>
> And here it is! As hidden as this is, it is the problem. I do not think
> you have unanimous agreement, else these arguments would not keep coming
> up. As long as you are "promoting" BSD you will invite vigorous debate
> with the GPL camp. For the sake of the peace and respect for the GPL
> camp, I think the politics and religion of license should be relegated
> to personal opinion.
I merely meant that we should show BSD as a viable license, rather than
make excuses for it by saying it was chosen by someone long ago. We
_do_ need to promote it within our own source tree.
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