From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
Cc: | Patric Bechtel <bechtel(at)ipcon(dot)de>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de> |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL on Windows [Viruschecked] |
Date: | 2003-01-20 23:03:21 |
Message-ID: | 3E2C8039.3ECFBEFD@Yahoo.com |
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Robert Treat wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:19, Patric Bechtel wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:06:22 +0100, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> >
> > This "good" person on the list reached a beta of the 7.2 server around,
> > so no REAL prob. It's some porting effort from multera.
> > But AFAIK PostgreSQL is GPL'ed, so it is not allowed to modify and
> > sell only? So ANY copy of whom ever modified PostgreSQL HAS to be free,
> > or am I wrong? So how can it be pirated?
> >
>
> PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD license, so people can make
> changes to the code and keep them closed source. AFAIK this is what
> dbexperts has done, so someone that used their source code to make there
> own distribution would be pirating the software.
First of all, I think dbExperts did no native Port. I have the 7.2
version of dbExperts PostgreSQL on the shelf. The dbxlibs.dll is
considerably smaller and contains only 37 occurences of the string
"cygwin" - an original cygwin1.dll contains 185.
But as tou said, PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD license, so it is
not our problem.
Jan
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