On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Actually, the latter isn't so.
>
> If Mammoth or Pervasive or such release their own release of
> PostgreSQL, nothing has historically mandated that they make that
> release available under the BSD license.
>
> Presumably acceptance of the patent would change that.
>
> You and I might not have individual objections to this situation, but
> one or another of the companies putting together PostgreSQL releases
> very well might.
But, there is nothing stop'ng them from replacing the ARC code with their
own variant though ...
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