Re: contrib/pg_filedump - PostgreSQL File Dump Utility

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > A larger issue is that this code wants to be in contrib.  I don't see
> > any other GPL code in contrib.
>
> You didn't look very hard then; a grep for 'General Public License' finds
>

Yea, I looked only for GPL, not the longer string.  Good find.

> as well as hits in ODBC, some autoconf input files, and flex and bison
> output files.  The autoconf/flex/bison hits are not a problem because
> those have special exemption clauses in their licenses.  And ODBC uses
> LGPL, which doesn't have the "viral" properties of GPL, so it's not a
> threat to the rest of our distribution.
>
> I do have concerns about including these six contrib modules in our
> distribution, however.  It could be argued that the terms of the GPL
> forbid that.

Yes, I see your point. We better figure out what we need to do, if
anything, and do it.  I don't see any key pieces in that listing.

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