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

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

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>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Yes, it does keep it simple for the community. However, there are
> perfectly valid arguments for other structures that are also positive.
> For example, if the docs are licensed in a way that allows free sharing
> but not for commercial use, if someone wants to use them commercially
> there could be a defined fee/donation to the community that gets paid.
> That fee can help with things like having testing clusters.
>
True. XC activities are now uniquely funded by NTT.
Diversifying the sources of funding is necessary to reinforce the
economical model and the independency of the project.

That said, I sit on the fundraising group, the sponsorship committee,
> and am a director for Pg.US and SPI. Meetings are a pain :P
>
Hehe :)


> Personally, if I have a vote the license (for Postgres-XC as well but
> let's not start that thread) would not be BSD, but LGPL. The LGPL allows
> people to commercialize the product BUT and here is the big BUT, it
> requires that any changes to the product must also be given back. For
> our docs, that could be a real boon, please use them commercially,
> please sell them, please change them as much as you like but understand
> that you must give all those improvements back to the community as well.
>
LGLP might be a possibility in the future to insure the economical model of
the project. So is is true that this cannot be excluded.
However, XC stays BSD now.
-- 
Michael Paquier
http://michael.otacoo.com