On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:50:40PM -0500, Richard Welty wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:50:23 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Breen Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The result of this ambiguity is that the > > > latest CD release of OpenBSD (3.4) no longer includes Postgresql > > > We are not changing the license text we inherited from Berkeley. > > We do not have the right to, nor any interest in doing so. > > but you can consult with the attorneys for the Regents. they have > changed the license at times, and have passed those changes on > to other BSD licensed projects (e.g., when they removed the > advertising clause the advertising clause was also removed from > all the code in the OpenBSD distribution that was inherited from > the original BSD project.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that also require permission from every other contributer to PostgreSQL ever? I mean, hypothetically there might be someone in there who disagrees with the change. Not even the Regents can backdate a licence chage and have it affect all subsequent contributions. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good > men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke > "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be > governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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