From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing) |
Date: | 2003-11-27 03:12:56 |
Message-ID: | 60oeuysdvr.fsf@dev6.int.libertyrms.info |
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Randolf Richardson <rr(at)8x(dot)ca> writes:
> [sNip]
>>> In summary, you could be charging them for some very expensive courier
>>> services, if for which they don't pay then you won't deliver. =)
>>
>> Of course a competitor could purchase a copy or get it from a customer
>> and set up shop right away selling it too.
>
> Ah, so even the GPL has a few loop holes! =D
If you read the GPL very carefully, you may find that it was crafted
with considerable care and intent.
I _don't_ think what MySQL AB is doing with it is quite what was
intended, but the various side-effects that you see are, by and large,
quite intentional, even the ones that don't play into scenarios of
Richard Stallman as "Evil Overlord."
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