Legacy approval request - BSD license (PostgreSQL variant)

Dave Page dpage at pgadmin.org
Wed Nov 25 11:41:52 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> The report
> (http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:891:200911:kkkdoobblnejkkfllocl)
> says, "License is not generic and the disclaimer doesn't cover the
> PostgreSQL project submittors."
>
> This basically means you should make "variables" along the lines of
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php to make clear how to
> apply the license to other organizations.  In the course of doing so,
> you should consider changing "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF
> CALIFORNIA" to "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE <ORGANIZATIONS>", and the
> equivalent for the next paragraph.  For you, ORGANIZATIONS would
> probably be set to something like "THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
> PostgreSQL Global Development Group"

Thanks Matt. I'll revise and resubmit.

Regards, Dave.

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Dave Page
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