On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:49:29PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Feb 7, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >> we need to add this to the "Features we do not want" section of our >> todo list. > > "Proprietary compression algorithms, even with Postgresql-specific > license exceptions"?
Considering that the entire project ships with a BSD license, which very specifically allows use of all or any tiniest part of it with (skipping some legalese) two restrictions: mention PGDG in the copyright list, and don't sue us no matter what happens, any "Postgresql-specific license exceptions" are equivalent to "that algorithm is no longer proprietary" because any project could simply use PostgreSQL's version and have done. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
