| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Robert D(dot) Nelson" <RDNELSON(at)co(dot)centre(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | John Daniels <jmd526(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, tgl <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | RE: PostgreSQL & the BSD License |
| Date: | 2000-07-10 12:34:02 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20000710223402.00bff2c0@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 08:24 10/07/00 -0400, Robert D. Nelson wrote:
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>Stupid question time: BSD allows forking of the code base, perhaps to
>proprietary. If going proprietary, I would imagine you could change the
>license. So why can't we have a "license fork"?
>
I'll ask, but I think he'll say that the license applies to the source; if
a commercial fork was made, then they are free to hide the source. But if
they ever release the source, then it has to go under the BSD again.
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