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What is the best contact with whom to discuss possible violations of the pgsql license?
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 09:31:15PM +0000, tom.beacon wrote:
What is the best contact with whom to discuss possible violations of the pgsql
license?
Uh, good question, and I could not find the answer easily. I would
report it to the owners of the Postgres trademark:
https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/trademarks/
board@lists.postgres.ca
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 09:31:15PM +0000, tom.beacon wrote:
What is the best contact with whom to discuss possible violations of the pgsql
license?
Uh, good question, and I could not find the answer easily. I would
report it to the owners of the Postgres trademark:
https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/trademarks/
board@lists.postgres.ca
A point worth making here is that the Postgres *license* is so lax
that it's basically impossible to violate, unless maybe by redistributing
the code sans COPYRIGHT file. And even if somebody were doing that,
I doubt how much we'd care.
We do care more about the Postgres *trademarks*, which is why Bruce
is pointing you to the organization that owns those. But a trademark
violation is an entirely different animal from a copyright violation.
regards, tom lane
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 06:08:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 09:31:15PM +0000, tom.beacon wrote:
What is the best contact with whom to discuss possible violations of the pgsql
license?Uh, good question, and I could not find the answer easily. I would
report it to the owners of the Postgres trademark:https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/trademarks/
board@lists.postgres.caA point worth making here is that the Postgres *license* is so lax
that it's basically impossible to violate, unless maybe by redistributing
the code sans COPYRIGHT file. And even if somebody were doing that,
I doubt how much we'd care.
I have received private reports of our COPYRIGHT not being properly
included in distributions so I am sensitive to those possible
violations, and I assume the trademark holders would deal with those as
well.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
EDB https://enterprisedb.com
If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.
Greetings,
* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 06:08:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 09:31:15PM +0000, tom.beacon wrote:
What is the best contact with whom to discuss possible violations of the pgsql
license?Uh, good question, and I could not find the answer easily. I would
report it to the owners of the Postgres trademark:https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/trademarks/
board@lists.postgres.caA point worth making here is that the Postgres *license* is so lax
that it's basically impossible to violate, unless maybe by redistributing
the code sans COPYRIGHT file. And even if somebody were doing that,
I doubt how much we'd care.I have received private reports of our COPYRIGHT not being properly
included in distributions so I am sensitive to those possible
violations, and I assume the trademark holders would deal with those as
well.
One of the downsides of attributing the copyrights to an organization
which doesn't exist (PGDG) is that, I would think anyway, it'd make it
rather hard to actually enforce anything regarding copyright.. I'm not
a lawyer though.
Thanks,
Stephen