On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Patric Bechtel wrote:
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> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:06:22 +0100, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
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> This "good" person on the list reached a beta of the 7.2 server around,
> so no REAL prob. It's some porting effort from multera.
> But AFAIK PostgreSQL is GPL'ed, so it is not allowed to modify and
> sell only? So ANY copy of whom ever modified PostgreSQL HAS to be free,
> or am I wrong? So how can it be pirated?
Sorry, but you have been misinformed. Postgresql is licensed under the
much more loose BSD style license, which means someone can do exactly what
we are speaking of, i.e. port it and charge money and not give away the
source code.