Re: [Postgres-xc-general] License of Postgres-XC related documents and contents

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Mason Sharp <ma...@st...> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Koichi Suzuki <ko...@in...>
> wrote:
> > Mason is proposing that it's better to license XC contents commercially
> as well.
> >
>
> I am just saying that anything from the Postgres-XC Development Group
> could be like the PostgreSQL Development Group and allow liberal
> usage. If someone does not want to allow liberal usage, then they put
> it under their own name or company name instead of the Postgres-XC
> Development Group, and under any such license that they choose (is
> that more similar to how PostgreSQL also operates?).  It seems like an
> easy way to avoid disagreements and avoid adding bylaws, committees
> and bureaucracy.
>
Just to be clear: what are the documents you are talking about?
If it is the documentation in GIT, then it falls
under Postgres-XC Development Group copyright and is licensed as PostgreSQL
license.
If it is the presentation documents that have been used at conferences,
this is different. And in this case if you want to reuse those materials
you might need to contact the authors except if they decided to transmit
the copyright of their documents under Postgres-XC Development Group. For
example, I haven't written any presentation document under Postgres-XC
Development group label, and I don't recall that I transmitted the right to
use my own presentation slides for commercial usages.
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Michael Paquier
http://michael.otacoo.com