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

Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr=F8d?= wrote:
> JanWieck(at)t-online(dot)de (Jan Wieck) writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> You don't have to tell the world they can have it for free - you can
> sell it, and develop it by demand.
>
> > Only need to ship the code to the one paying
>
> Yes.

Now I don't want to ship the source code. My customer would
be happy with a patched 8.2.3 binary as long as I'm
responsible to patch future versions until I release the
sources. Is that OK?

Jan

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