| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, "Michael A(dot) Olson" <mao(at)sleepycat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, ned(at)greatbridge(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: replace no-overwrite with Berkeley DB |
| Date: | 2000-05-16 00:02:19 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20000516100219.021cfd80@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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>We could get perpetual rights to the code as integrated into our code.
>Also, if they change something, we could always take it as our own and
>keep it working for us. I think we would need something like that.
>
One of the often-stated virtues of PGSQL is that it is easy for a company
to take the source and go commercial. If you start integrating 'special
license greements' into the development, then that advantage is severly
reduced.
A commercial operator has to form an agreement with sleepycat or rewrite
the storage manager. Unless sleepycat grant a completely open license to
PGSQL and all it's commercial descendants in perpetuity, it seems you may
be removing one of the seeling points of PGSQL.
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