| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | 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 03:17:04 |
| Message-ID: | 200603100317.k2A3H4X26345@candle.pha.pa.us |
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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.
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Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us
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