| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Jan Wieck's name from |
| Date: | 2006-03-10 03:36:53 |
| Message-ID: | 20060309233610.B1178@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>> With the BSD license, there really isn't any restriction to enforce, so
>>> the copyright owner is pretty meaningless.
>>
>> if nobody owns the code, then who has to be consulted to change the
>> license?
>
> You can't. Berkeley keeps the license, and we add ourselves to it. If
> someone else comes along, they can copyright it and add restrictions to
> their version.
'k, but what is wrong with "Portions copyright by ..." added to the
appropriate files? Why is that "A Bad Thing"?
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