> I'm not a lawyer and I make no judgement on how solid a practice this >> is but that's VMware doesn't seem to be doing anything special here. >> They can retain copyright ownership of their contributions as long as >> they're happy releasing it under the Postgres copyright. Ideally they >> wold also be happy with a copyright notice that includes all of the >> PGDG just to reduce the maintenance headache.
Many other projects also take this approach: Linux Kernel, Drizzle, etc. There's some legal advantages, as well as disadvantages, in having the copyright rest with the original contributors. Mostly, it prevents relicensing of the whole project. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
