Why?

Why?

Posted Aug 29, 2003 18:30 UTC (Fri) by admiyo (guest, #14580)
In reply to: Why? by AnswerGuy
Parent article: PostgreSQL, Inc. donates database replication software

Actually, GPL would protect them better than BSD because they are the copyright owner.

With BSD, anyone can make a closed source version

With GPL, only the copyright owner can make a closed source version.

However, with BSD, they don't really have to chase down people that contribute a huge amount of code to get them to assign copyright back to Postgres, Inc. in order to legally release a closed source version.

Either way, this is good code.

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