Serguei Mokhov wrote:
>
> and why the PostgreSQL project originally is being
> released under the BSD-like license? Just curious...
Berkeley usually releases their free projects under BSD licence ;)
There have been some discussion about changing it, but it has never got
enough support.
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> Because the code we got from Berkeley was BSD licensed, we
> can't change it, and because many of us like the BSD license
> better because we don't want to require them to release the
> source code, we just want them to use PostgreSQL. And we
> think they will release the source code eventually
> > Yes, the weird part is that the BSD license is so lax (don't sue us)
> > that it is the addition of the GPL that changes the affect of the
> > license. If you added a BSD license to a GPL'ed piece of code, the
> > effect would be near zero.
>
> Sorry for asking this off-topic question, but I
