Message-Id: <199601110249.SAA07103@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
From: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: postgres-arch@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Reply-To: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
Subject: [wpp@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE: What is the copyright status of the Linux port of postgres?]
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 18:49:55 -0800
Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU

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 From:  Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
 To:  gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca (Guy "R." Thomas)
 Cc:  aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
 Subject:  Re: What is the copyright status of the Linux port of postgres?
 Date:  Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:30:43 +0100 (MET DST)

 > 
 > Hi gentlemen;
 > 
 > I am putting together a Debianized version of Postgres and would like some  
 > clarification of the copyright status of Postgres.
 > 
 > I recall that Paul offered up the full RCS logs of the Postgres source tree so  
 > that anyone could claim ownership.  I also recall that Kai claimed them in the name  
 > of GNU.  So my questions are;  Did I hear Paul right? Did I hear Kai right? and If  
 > I did hear both of you correctly am I being too literal minded when I come to the  
 > conclusion that the Linux port of Postgres is now under the GNU Copyleft?
 
 No.  There was a misunderstanding, which I talked out with Paul in
 e-mail, not on the list.  Paul wanted to say, that everybody could
 claim ownership of the project, meaning, that they may call themselves
 the new maintainers of Postgres.
 
 I misinterpreted him, and thought, that everybody could claim
 ownership of the source (which would mean, that Postgres has been
 put in the public domain).  This is not true.  Postgres is still
 under the copyright, which you find in the file COPYRIGHT in the
 main source tree.
 
 
 Kai
 

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