Re: Rebranding PostgreSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: john(dot)bender(at)hushmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rebranding PostgreSQL
Date: 2005-11-16 17:20:26
Message-ID: 8825.1132161626@sss.pgh.pa.us
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<john(dot)bender(at)hushmail(dot)com> writes:
> In our effort to distribute PostgreSQL to our customers, our higher
> ups would like to reduce the visibility that it is indeed
> PostgreSQL for a number of reasons at a few of our customer sites
> (particularly because these particular customers are very wary of
> open source).

> I know the license allows rebranding, but is there a document
> anywhere that specifies just what you have to do to do it? Is it as
> simple as regexing strings in the source, compiling, and renaming
> the exectuables? Or is it fraught with twisty little passages?

The license may allow it, but you really need a fair amount of chutzpah
to expect that people help you with it ...

regards, tom lane

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