On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 04:34, Justin Clift wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> <snip>
> > > Nope. To keep the `original' code licence as it is and to release the
> > > changes GPL? Is the question sane at first place?
> >
> > That would be a pretty big mess, I think. People would add your patch
> > to our BSD code and it would be GPL. It could be done, of course.
>
> Don't think so. The patches would be "derived code" that only exist
> because of the BSD licensed PostgreSQL base.
>
> Being "derived code" they'd have to be released as BSD and GPL wouldn't
> enter the picture, regardless if they're released separately as add-on
> patches or not.
>
I'm pretty sure BSD allows you to relicense derived code as you see fit.
However, any derived project that was released GPL would have a hell of
a time ever getting put back into the main source (short of
relicensing).
Robert Treat