Re: Licensing

> I may have some spare hacking time coming up, and I was thinking about
> adding a PL (Scheme) to PostgreSQL.  I've found some code out there
> for a small Scheme interpreter, but it appears to be licensed under a
> "BSD with advertising clause" license (as opposed to the "modern BSD"
> license of PostgreSQL).  The license text includes:
> 
>     Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> 
>     Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
>     the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
>     distribution.
> 
> Would it be a problem to include this code in PG?  

I think it would be fine.  I don't think the old/new BSD license is any
major distinction.  We moved from old to new with no issues a while ago.

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