Hi Haim,

Is the PostgreSQL license (http://www.postgresql.org/licence.html) LGPL compatible? I have adapted some code (for jdate manipulation) into the OLE DB project (LGPL). I have copied over the copyright notice, but now I'm thinking that this may not be enough.

On the front page of the site (http://www.postgresql.org/) it says "*Licence <http://www.postgresql.org/licence.html>* PostgreSQL is distributed under the flexible BSD licence." but the license is not the BSD license proper.

It seems close, though not identical, to the X11 license (http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html), which the FSF define as "GPL compatible" (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html). Yet, the X11 license requires an inclusion of a certain paragraph, which is not mandated by the LGPL, and which gives permissions not granted by the GPL.

I'm confused.

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting
http://www.lingnu.com/


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