Обсуждение: pgAdmin Licencing Changes
Following discussions within the pgAdmin development team, I'm pleased to announce the following changes to pgAdmin's licence. These changes are being implemented due to concerns raised by some parties about the wording used in the pgAdmin Public Licence. - All future versions of pgAdmin will be released under the Artistic Licence. - Previous versions of pgAdmin II will be retroactively relicenced under the Artistic Licence AND the pgAdmin Public Licence. Note that pgAdmin I and the pgAdmin II Migration Wizard are released under the GNU General Public Licence and are not affected by these changes. For future versions of pgAdmin, these changes mean that end users and developers are guaranteed greater freedom to use and work with the pgAdmin code than under the old licence. For previous versions of pgAdmin II, any user or developer may consider the code to be under either the pgAdmin Public Licence under which they downloaded it, or the Artistic licence if they prefer. The Artistic licence is an OSI approved Open Source licence and can be found here: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php Regards, Dave. -- Dave Page pgAdmin Project Lead
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Dave Page wrote: > - Previous versions of pgAdmin II will be retroactively relicenced under > the Artistic Licence AND the pgAdmin Public Licence. If by this you mean that existing versions of pgAdmin II already distributed will be relicensed, I'm not sure that action is lawful. Generally speaking, unilaterally attempting to change an already distributed product to another license, regardless if that license is more or less restrictive, has little if any basis in either law or court cases.