Re: beta testing version

Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:

> Mitch Vincent wrote:
> >
> > Regardless of what license is best, could the license even be changed now? I
> > mean, some of the initial Berkeley code is still in there in some sense and
> > I would think that the original license (BSD I assume) of the initial source
> > code release would have to be somehow honored.. I'm just wondering if the PG
> > team could change the license even if they wanted to.. I should go read the
> > license again, I know the answer to the above is in there but it's been a
>
> _Every_single_ copyright holder of code in the core server would have to
> agree to any change.

No - GPL projects can include BSD-copyrighted code, no problem
there. That being said, creating bad blood is not a good thing, so an
approach like this would hurt PostgreSQL a lot.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.