On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:49:29PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
>> we need to add this to the "Features we do not want" section of our
>> todo list.
>
> "Proprietary compression algorithms, even with Postgresql-specific
> license exceptions"?
Considering that the entire project ships with a BSD license, which
very specifically allows use of all or any tiniest part of it with
(skipping some legalese) two restrictions: mention PGDG in the
copyright list, and don't sue us no matter what happens, any
"Postgresql-specific license exceptions" are equivalent to "that
algorithm is no longer proprietary" because any project could simply
use PostgreSQL's version and have done.
Cheers,
David.
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