Re: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 01 2005 ==

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
> > David Fetter wrote:
> >
> > >== PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 01 2005 ==
> > >
> > >As of today, the license of PostgreSQL, including all its libraries,
> > >is changing from the unfashionable BSD license to the more popular
> > >GPL.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Fine I can't see the difference, but have you not got to clear this
> > with every developer past and present to get it through.
>
> Nope. You can do anything you want with BSD licensed software, so long
> as you maintain the copyright info. GPL restricts what you can do.

Yea, I guess so. If companies can make a closed-source version of
PostgreSQL, someone could do a GPL version.

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