On Thursday 06 October 2005 08:34, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > 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. > I thought it would only be needed if you where distributing the source for Postgresql. Does the copyright get distributed with the binary Debian packages? I haven't been able to find it on my Linux box. If it is, I would probably have to put a chapter explaining that it only applies to the libpq.so part of the executable. > > 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. :) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
