From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left? |
Date: | 2004-03-14 04:18:48 |
Message-ID: | 200403140418.i2E4ImV14570@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>
> > Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> >
> >> the point is that PostgreSQL is no GNU product, never has been and if someone
> >> intends to he shall do so after yanking out the contributions I made.
> >
> > Note that when you released your contributions you did so under a license that
> > imposed no such conditions. If Microsoft wanted to release a Microsoft
> > Postgresql under a completely proprietary license they would be free to do so.
> > Likewise if someone wanted to release a GPL'd "GNU Postgresql" they could do
> > it. And nobody could force either to yank anyone's code.
>
> I released my contributions under the BSD license. A license change is
> only possible when accepted by the Copyright holder. I might have missed
> something, but when did Microsoft get the Copyright of my code?
We allow companies to make commercial versions of PostgreSQL that use a
proprietary license, so I don't see you could prevent Microsoft from
doing the same.
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