On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:14:03PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:49:06PM +1000, Neil Dugan wrote: > > > > If I was to develop a 'C' project that only used the libpg.so library and the > > rest was my own stuff would I need to preserve the copyright to somehow? > > Yes, because libpg.so is licensed under the BSD license. Note that > you can do this in a COPYRIGHT file. It just has to be "in all > copies", whatever that means. AFAIK, this would only apply if he was actually distributing libpq.so, which would be a bad thing for technical reasons anyway. > People are actually slightly oversimplifying, because when you > distribute you also have to distribute two paragraphs. > > The license is available, among other places, from this URL: > > http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence > > It has _got_ to be the easiest piece of legalese you'll ever Not easy enough to avoid confusion though. :) -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
