| From: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar(at)frodo(dot)hserus(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com |
| Cc: | "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Table Spaces |
| Date: | 2004-05-19 09:44:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200405191514.13487.shridhar@frodo.hserus.net |
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On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:19, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com wrote:
> > pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com wrote:
> >> This makes me worried. That's the way we *used* to do things, but the
> >> sleazy IP lawyers are looking for anything with which they can create
> >> the
> >> impression of impropriety. The open source and free projects are ground
> >> zero for this crap.
> >>
> >> We *really* need to be careful.
> >
> > I assumed this tool was GPL and we just needed to avoid the GPL issue.
>
> I'm probably just being alarmist, but think about some IP lawyer buying up
> the entity that owns the GPL code, and suing end user's of PostgreSQL.
>
> This is similar to what is happening in Linux land with SCO.
>
> The best defense is to say, nope, we didn't copy your stuff, we
> implemented it ourselves based on the documentation.
by that argument, the license of documentation should matter too.. Isn't it?
Shridhar
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