Legacy approval request - The PostgreSQL Licence

[John Cowan]

Wilson, Andrew scripsit:

> ... unless he has combined the code with GPL code, which I believe
> is Richard's point, since under the FSF interpretation of GPL
> the entire combined work must be licensed under GPL.  

The copyright status of a combined work is independent of the copy
right statuses of its parts, and so it can have a distinct license.
In no case is there a need to change the license of a part.

-- 
John Cowan              cowan at ccil.org          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               --Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"