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

[Joshua D. D. <jd...@co...>]

On 07/21/2012 01:01 PM, Mason Sharp wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Koichi Suzuki
> <koi...@gm...> wrote:
>> As Mason suggested, I think it's safer to begin with non-commercial
>> license.   Commercial use can be licensed in case-by-case basis and we
>> should license as long as the use helps XC.   There could be many
>> different commercial use and I'm not sure if the commercial license
>> helps XC in many corner cases.
>>
>
> Actually, I just meant that I think anything created by the
> "Postgres-XC Development Group" as a whole should allow liberal usage
> (whatever license that would be), including commercial use, and that
> if someone creates something and wants some restrictions, they should
> do it under their own name or company. Isn't that similar to the
> PostgreSQL community?

Well PostgreSQL is 100% BSD (docs included) so.... you can pretty much 
do whatever you want.

>  If the others in the XC community wants to go a
> different route, that's fine, I just hope it does not become overly
> bureaucratic.

Agreed, which is why I suggested keeping our hands clean but forcing the 
good community-citizen approach with attribution.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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