From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Copyright
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:11:02 +0200
Message-ID: <38934956.73530456@tm.ee> (raw)
References: <20000128170743.A12694@rice.edu>
<3.0.5.32.20000129163155.03787100@mail.rhyme.com.au>
<38929086.8B961E91@alumni.caltech.edu>
Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > This depends on the definition of open source; I think Netscape is
> > OpenSource these days, but I doubt if anyone would be allowed to take the
> > sources and create "Petscape: The Dog's Browser". But, as far as I know, I
> > could go away tomorrow with the PostgreSQL sources and create "Mostgress",
> > so long as I did not try to sell it. AFAIK, I might even get away with
> > selling it, but it's not really the point.
>
> Yes you could. The original Postgres developers (or at least some of
> them) did just that in founding Illustra. They sold the company a
> couple of years later for $50M US to Informix.
Actually Postgres was _not_ distributed under the BSD (do-whatever-you-want
but
give credit) license but a much more restrictive license that required a
special
permission from UBC to to anything non-educational.
IIRC Stonebraker et al founded Illustra after getting special permissions from
UCB
The shift to BSD license (that enabled the current blooming of PostgreSQL ;)
was oftained sometime during the development of postgres 95, with some
considerable backing from Stonebraker.
>
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Hannu
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