Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:45:40 -0700
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: Approval process for news/events/training is broken
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Folks,

>>> 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.

I don't think any of this is relevant for the News page.  The question 
is, will the person sending me the press release be a paid PR person, or 
an OSS developer?  We treat the two differently because they're going to 
send us different sorts of news at different intervals.

For example, I would treat EDB-Postgres as "commercial" because they 
send us formal press releases every 3 weeks, which often need 
significant re-writing to target our developers.  On the other hand, if 
we get anything from OpenRPT it's just a release announcement, maybe 
once a year, so we can treat them like an "PostgreSQL Family" OSS project.

So it's not commercial vs. open source *product*, it's commercial vs. 
open source *news*.

--Josh Berkus