| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
| Cc: | 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>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, 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 17:24:32 |
| Message-ID: | 200201211724.g0LHOXO19024@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> It's really noone's business why any of us dislike it. My reasons may
> or may not be different than yours which may/may not be different from
> Marc's, and so on. Why try to summarize everyone's feelings when it's
> unnecessary. My statement never said that we just don't like it, it
> was clear that many of the developers were uncomfortable with its
> restrictions. Break it down. What are "many of the developers"
> uncomfortable with? The GPL's restrictions. What's not clear about
> that? It didn't say "many of the developers just don't like it", that
> would border on confrontational. You're not going to change the minds
> of those that favor GPL just as you're not going to change the minds
> of those that prefer BSD.
Isn't it the restrictions on proprietary use that we dislike? Seems we
should say that in there.
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