> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:28 PM
> To: Greg Stark
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?
>
>
> Greg Stark wrote:
> > imposed no such conditions. If Microsoft wanted to release
> a Microsoft
> > Postgresql under a completely proprietary license they would be free
> to do
>
> I have often wondered, in a completely off-topic and
> unproductive sort of way, if exactly that has not already
> been done by an unscrupulous or semi-scrupulous commercial
> vendor. This has been done in the past (a certain vendor's
> tcp/ip stack comes to mind), but I wonder if anyone ever
> pulled it with this project.
It would be pretty ridiculous for anyone to do that.
After all, how painful is it to add the BSD notice?
And lacking the notice, you would be in violation of the license.
Not to say that it hasn't happened or won't happen. But it would be
really stupid.