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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Approval process for news/events/training is broken
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:29:10 -0700
Message-ID: <20071015152910.004f1fff@scratch> (raw)
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:20:36 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:

> > > The real question is, "is it proprietary". If it is even partially
> > > closed source then it really doesn't belong in the "postgresql
> > > family product" unless we also include MPP and Replicator.
> > 
> > You know what I mean :-). And all of EDB-Postgres is open source,
> > including the funky little MySQL migrator tool in the latest builds.
> 
> Uh, doesn't the installer use a commercial product that isn't open
> source?  Does requiring non-open source tools to build something make
> it non-open source?  Postgres requires a C compiler that can be open
> or closed source so I don't know if that helps clarify things.

Well I think I C compiler is a little different.

If the Installer is closed source, that is part of the package and I
would consider that a show stopper, because I need a closed source
package to install the software...

Joshua D. Drake


 


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