> I'm not a lawyer and I make no judgement on how solid a practice this
>> is but that's VMware doesn't seem to be doing anything special here.
>> They can retain copyright ownership of their contributions as long as
>> they're happy releasing it under the Postgres copyright. Ideally they
>> wold also be happy with a copyright notice that includes all of the
>> PGDG just to reduce the maintenance headache.
Many other projects also take this approach: Linux Kernel, Drizzle, etc.There's some legal advantages, as well as
disadvantages,in having the
copyright rest with the original contributors. Mostly, it prevents
relicensing of the whole project.
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Josh Berkus
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