Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left?

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> Greg Stark wrote:
>>
>> > Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>> >
>> >> the point is that PostgreSQL is no GNU product, never has been and if someone
>> >> intends to he shall do so after yanking out the contributions I made.
>> >
>> > Note that when you released your contributions you did so under a license that
>> > imposed no such conditions. If Microsoft wanted to release a Microsoft
>> > Postgresql under a completely proprietary license they would be free to do so.
>> > Likewise if someone wanted to release a GPL'd "GNU Postgresql" they could do
>> > it. And nobody could force either to yank anyone's code.
>>
>> I released my contributions under the BSD license. A license change is
>> only possible when accepted by the Copyright holder. I might have missed
>> something, but when did Microsoft get the Copyright of my code?
>
> We allow companies to make commercial versions of PostgreSQL that use a
> proprietary license, so I don't see you could prevent Microsoft from
> doing the same.
>

The BSD license allows everyone to use the code in proprietary software.
But that doesn't mean that you can relicense THAT code. I seem to
remember that one of our arguments against license changes was that we'd
need written agreement from all former contributors. Is that wrong?

Jan

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