Re: PostgreSQL and Objective-C
Re: PostgreSQL and Objective-C
- Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and Objective-C
- From: p3consulting <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:44:15 +0200
Le 16 avr., 2005, à 21:04, The Karl Adam a écrit :
You do realize that large GPL projects normally have lots of authors,
committers, and patches submitted to them? You also realize that you
need to track down each and every one of these original authors to get
their express permission or terms for any code they have contributed
in order to be clear of the GPL?
This is of course assuming the project has a list of all the
submitters that put in effort to create the work that you want access
to. The GPL applies to all submissions to a GPL project so if you can
not secure the permission of even one person you cannot use that
product. The APSL expressly includes terms for the annotation of
author and contact info for patches and changesets to allow you to
more easily track people down for this sort of thing. Those provisions
exist in order to avoid that GPL mess.
Lastly, even if you track down every person that ever contributed code
to that product, there is no guarantee they will allow want to allow
you use of their work, nor is there anything that says the terms that
any of them will agree to are what you would consider fair. So while
he might have overstated(probably from experience) you are
understating completely by saying it is *merely* a small issue of
asking.
You interpret my post:
I don't say anywhere it's a small issue (and again this is a project
specific problem... no general rule),
I just say: it's not because you have to ask that you have to pay
"obscene" fees...
(define obscene...)
And regarding more specifically PostgreSQL-related tools:
GDL2: 3 authors
ARJDatabase 2 authors
pgsqlcocoa 1 author
Pascal Pochet
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