Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49CBB9F9977 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:21:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67590-09 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:21:17 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from developer.pgadmin.org (developer.pgadmin.org [63.246.23.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378079F961D for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:21:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from snake.edbuk ([62.232.55.118]) (authenticated bits=0) by developer.pgadmin.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9G8L8os024654 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:21:10 +0100 Message-ID: <47147474.3040300@postgresql.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:21:08 +0100 From: Dave Page User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Momjian CC: "Joshua D. Drake" , Magnus Hagander , Josh Berkus , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Approval process for news/events/training is broken References: <200710152220.l9FMKad02511@momjian.us> In-Reply-To: <200710152220.l9FMKad02511@momjian.us> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 OpenPGP: url=http://www.pgadmin.org/pgp/davepage.pgp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200710/99 X-Sequence-Number: 12686 Bruce Momjian wrote: > Uh, doesn't the installer use a commercial product that isn't open > source? Yes, but then so does pgInstaller. > 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. No. The licence is on the code, not the toolchain used to build it. Otherwise you could argue that nothing could be open source on Windows. Or that pgAdmin I (GPL) or pgAdmin II (Artistic) or psqlODBC (LGPL) are closed source. /D