| From: | Jason Petersen <jason(at)citusdata(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)Sheeky(dot)Biz>, Ned Lilly <ned(at)xtuple(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Sourceforge |
| Date: | 2015-05-29 05:21:30 |
| Message-ID: | 8FAF1235-420F-44E4-B1C1-B7FFF6473021@citusdata.com |
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> On May 28, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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> We don't have legal ability to restrict them period. We are BSD licensed. The best we can do is put up a PSA.
Today a coworker mused whether we could issue a C&D for misuse of trademark if it comes to that. Maybe?
> That said, SF doesn't have the traffic to harm us. I am not worried about it. We aren't a web browser or something "users" would download (like Gimp).
We came to the same conclusion at lunch today. I wondered aloud whether Oracle would ever extend their [shameful practices][1] to MySQL, and someone pointed out that it’s probably only worthwhile to do so for apps likely to be installed on end-user machines. Adware in server software is not going to pay off.
I saw [at least one project][2] which retained control over its SF account but rather than deleting it just turned off all read access. Might be a possibility.
[1]: http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-extends-its-adware-bundling-to-include-java-for-macs/
[2]: https://twitter.com/OOLua/status/603908660264316928
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