[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:ground
This makes me worried. That's the way we *used* to do things, but the
sleazy IP lawyers are looking for anything with which they can create
the
impression of impropriety. The open source and free projects are
I assumed this tool was GPL and we just needed to avoid the GPL issue.zero for this crap.
We *really* need to be careful.
I'm probably just being alarmist, but think about some IP lawyer buying up the entity that owns the GPL code, and suing end user's of PostgreSQL.
This is similar to what is happening in Linux land with SCO.
The best defense is to say, nope, we didn't copy your stuff, we
implemented it ourselves based on the documentation.
The safe bet if we want to use junction points is to use clean room techniques. I understand from other comments that it wouldn't be difficult.
cheers
andrew
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