From: | Kaare Rasmussen <kar(at)webline(dot)dk> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Inprise InterBase(R) 6.0 Now Free and Open Source |
Date: | 2000-07-29 10:13:33 |
Message-ID: | 00072912153707.12581@bering |
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> > The requirements seem to be pretty commonsense things...
> > If you use some source code from Inprise, you've got to
> > keep track of where the source came from, label it with
> > their license, list any modifications you've made, always
> > provide the source with any executables, etc.
>
> But the BSD license doesn't require source for distributed binaries.
> Sounds like a GPL-style restriction.
What is more important to my mind is if the license permits a developer to look
at the code and get inspired, or if the developer's mind will be "tainted" just
by looking.
I hope someone can tell; I always wake up later with my head on the keyboard
when I try to read license stuff...
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