Re: beta testing version

On Sunday 03 December 2000 12:41, mlw wrote:
> Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > As soon as you find a business model which does not require income, let
> > me know. The .com'ers are trying it at the moment, and there seems to be
> > a few flaws... ;)
>
> While I have not contributed anything to Postgres yet, I have
> contributed to other environments. The prospect that I could create a
> piece of code, spend weeks/years of my own time on something and some
> entity can come along, take what I've written and create a product which
> is better for it, and then not share back is offensive. Under GPL it is
> illegal. (Postgres should try to move to GPL)

With you on the last statemente.

> I am working on a full-text search engine for Postgres. A really fast
> one, something better than anything else out there. It combines the
> power and scalability of a web search engine, with the data-mining
> capabilities of SQL.

If you want to make something GPL I would be more then interested to help
you. We could use something like that over here, and I have no problem at all
with releasing it as GPL code.

> If I write this extension to Postgres, and release it, is it right that
> a business can come along, add a few things here and there and introduce
> a new closed source product on what I have written? That is certainly
> not what I intend. My intention was to honor the people before me for
> providing the rich environment which is Postgres. I have made real money
> using Postgres in a work environment. The time I would give back more
> than covers MSSQL/Oracle licenses.

I'm not sure, but you could introduce a peice of GPL code in the BSD code,
but the result would have to be GPL.

Hoping to hear from you,

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