Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:13:01AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> People:
>
> > > No, it means the distributors are illegally distributing software they
> > > don't have permission to distribute. The GPL doesn't make everything
> > > else GPL right away, that's a myth.
>
> I'm not talking out of my hat here.

I don't expect you to talk inside your hat either. Anyway, I realized
that our license does allow this to happen without any sort of problem;
but I don't see what's so bad about it. The person who receives a GPL'd
Postgres can get a BSD Postgres just as easily, should the need arise.

The opinion I gave earlier, quoted above, is correct for other licenses,
e.g. any commercial license. Open source detractors say to everyone who
listen to them that including GPL code in their packages automatically
make them also GPL'ed, which is false.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>)
"You knock on that door or the sun will be shining on places inside you
that the sun doesn't usually shine" (en Death: "The High Cost of Living")