| From: | Richard Welty <rwelty(at)averillpark(dot)net> |
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| Date: | 2004-02-18 01:38:37 |
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:30:58 -0000 Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
attribution of my quote of Theo de Raadt got stripped some how:
> > "Free means free"
>
> That is very ironic, considering it was a license audit that got PostgreSQL
> yanked from the OpenBSD distribution, all because they have an (IMO) irrational
> fear of being sued (by whom?) over a license that has held up for many,
> many years. Thus, OpenBSD does not consider us "free".
you call it irrational, but Theo did it based on advice from an attorney.
i do not wish to reopen the license debate, so this will be my last
post in this thread.
cheers,
richard
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