Re: [HACKERS] Re: Revised Copyright: is this morepalatable?

Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr=F8d?= wrote:
> Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> writes:
>
> > This is not something new. SunOS, AIX, HPUX, etc. all have (at
> > one time or another) considerable BSD roots. And yet FreeBSD
> > still exists... All GPL does is 'poison' the pot by prohibiting
> > commercial spawns which may leverage the code.
>
> GPL doesn't prohibit commercial spawns - it just requires you to send
> the source along.

So if someone offers $$$ for implementation of Postgres
feature XYZ I don't have to make that code open source? Only
need to ship the code to the one paying (under NDA so he
cannot publish it) and grab the money?

That's currently possible with our license, and if someone
would pay $30,000 for something I need a month of unpayed
vacation to implement, why not? Maybe I can sell it to
others, that have the same urgent need for this feature, too.
Making another $xK out of it.

No question, the result will finally get contributed so
everyone benefits from it. The reason why someone is even
willing to pay that amount is just to get me out of my
dayjob, focussing on his problem NOW, so it's done in a
month.

Jan

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