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Date:      Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:27:07 -0600
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Shantanoo <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net>, Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commercial Distribution?
Message-ID:  <40620000.1073489227@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040107134537.GA415@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
References:  <3FFB7F8F.3010101@mindcore.net> <20040107134537.GA415@dhumketu.homeunix.net>

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--On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 19:15:37 +0530 Shantanoo=20
<freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> wrote:

> +++ Scott W [freebsd] [06-01-04 22:39 -0500]:
>| I know this one may be seen as sacrilege to some, but think about this:
>|
>| 1.  *BSD uses a fairly significant amount of GNU and GPL licensed
>| (opposed to the BSD license) code in it.  gcc, Perl, XFree86, Apache,
>| GNU Make, autoconf, mysql, PostgreSQL, etc etc.  While it can be argued
>| many/most of these are not part of the core OS, what about:  gcc,
>| objective c, libreadline, cvs, diff, tar, sort, patch and friends?
>| (from /usr/src/gnu and /usr/src/usr.bin )
>
> I think PostgreSQL is released under BSD license.
It *IS* under the BSD license, and that won't change :-) (It's an
RWAR every time it's mentioned to put it GPL).
(I spend a lot of time on the PostgreSQL lists.).



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