Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...

From: "Ian Harding" <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org>
To: <rwelty(at)averillpark(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...
Date: 2004-02-18 13:49:20
Message-ID: s032fcfe.056@mail.tpchd.org
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SCO is acting on advice from attorneys as well.

My last post.;^)

>>> Richard Welty <rwelty(at)averillpark(dot)net> 02/17/04 05:38PM >>>
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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