On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> This makes me worried. That's the way we *used* to do things, but the > >> sleazy IP lawyers are looking for anything with which they can create > >> the > >> impression of impropriety. The open source and free projects are ground > >> zero for this crap. > >> > >> We *really* need to be careful. > > > > I assumed this tool was GPL and we just needed to avoid the GPL issue. > > I'm probably just being alarmist, but think about some IP lawyer buying up > the entity that owns the GPL code, and suing end user's of PostgreSQL. > > This is similar to what is happening in Linux land with SCO. > > The best defense is to say, nope, we didn't copy your stuff, we > implemented it ourselves based on the documentation.
by that argument, the license of documentation should matter too.. Isn't it? Shridhar ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])