Legacy approval request - BSD license (PostgreSQL variant)

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Sep 24 20:06:34 UTC 2009


On 09/24/2009 04:03 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The PostgreSQL project (http://www.postgresql.org/) originates from
> Michael Stonebraker's database group at UC Berkeley. The project began
> in 1986, and was released by the Regents of the University of
> California in 1996 under a variant of their BSD licence, a copy of
> which is attached to this message.

It's worth noting that this license is clearly an MIT variant rather
than a BSD variant. We're tracking it as such in Fedora, and have been
for several years now.

~spot



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