Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?

> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > Huh?  We certainly do --- or have you missed that
> >  * Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
> > that's plastered across all the source files?
> 
> Regarding which I have a question: at other locations I see (c) 1994-7
> Univ. of California, or even (c) 1996-9 PostgreSQL Global Development
> Team.
> 
> I am not an expert in any of this, but I'm just wondering: when did the
> involvement of the U of C end, when was the Global Development Team (tm)
> formed and do both copyrights exits in parallel? What if someone
> contributes something really major and fairly independent (say like
> pg_access) and wants to keep his own copyright (with compatible license of
> course)?
> 
> And is the PostgreSQL Global Development Team any real entity that could
> theoretically enforce that copyright or is it just an alias for "whoever
> contributed"?

Now there's a good question.  How long does the BSD imprint remain.  I
assume forever.  It is still on BSD/OS files.  Only the ones they right
from scrath get a BSDI imprint.

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