Legacy approval request - The PostgreSQL Licence

[Dave Page]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway
<tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

> For what it is worth, I'd like to reiterate that this is functionally
> identical to MIT (X11), except that it is slightly less permissive (does
> not permit sublicensing).
>
> My only concern with approving this as a distinct license separate from
> MIT is that Fedora is tracking 26 other variants which are all
> functionally identical to the MIT license as approved by OSI, but have
> slightly different wording. If each of these licenses is approved and
> labeled separately, we will be encouraging rather significant license
> proliferation.

As you point out, the licence is less permissive, so surely calling it
MIT when it is not does your users a disservice as they may end up
inadvertently putting themselves in a position where they are in
non-compliance?

Regards, Dave