[postgis-devel] License

[Tom Lane]

Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> writes:
> In short: while it sounds interesting in theory, I don't think either 
> project is in a position where it can accept the other at the moment. 

Yeah.  I'd encourage you to think about adopting a BSDish license just
to reduce confusion about the legal status of Postgres+PostGIS
distributions.  But it's folly to imagine that the license difference
is the only reason PostGIS isn't integrated into core Postgres.

Personally I'm with Ron M: PostGIS is *more* valuable as a separate
project, because it's a tough and readily available test case for
creation of a module system for Postgres.  We like to say that Postgres
is an extensible system, and what that ought to mean is that you can do
pretty serious stuff without being part of the core distro.  There are
some obvious shortcomings there, but I'd rather try to fix them than
decide that everything interesting must become part of the core.

			regards, tom lane