pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
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> As the copyright owner, "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group," has
> the right to license the documentation any way they see fit.

The PGDG has never asked for copyright assignments from contributors (as
I gather the PHP folks do), so the copyright to Postgres is collectively
owned by everyone who has contributed to it, and not by the PGDG itself
(as Peter said). Relicensing would require the consent of all copyright
holders.

> At least in the USA, any entity that can be identified can own and
> control copyright.

So this is a moot point.

> Then, what you are saying, is that anyone could come along and create
> a paper trail calling themselves "The PostgreSQL Global Devlopment
> Group," and claim ownership.

And that simply isn't possible.

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> We can't, because we can't revoke Berkeley's copyright. But in
> practice there's hardly any difference anyway.

Just out of curiosity, are the docs covered by the Berkeley copyright?
I know the code originally came from there, but did our current docs
evolve from them, or were they created later on?

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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > We can't, because we can't revoke Berkeley's copyright. But in
> > practice there's hardly any difference anyway.
>
> Just out of curiosity, are the docs covered by the Berkeley copyright?
> I know the code originally came from there, but did our current docs
> evolve from them, or were they created later on?

They evolved, so they are BSD copyrighted.

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