Re: contrib/fuzzystrmatch/dmetaphone.c license

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:36:49PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>>I doubt we want to rip it out without some suitable
> >>>replacement -- do we?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>That's more than 10 years ago. I remember creating this for my then work
> >>at the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and sending it to Joe, but
> >>that's about the extent of my recollection.
> >>
> >>If the Artistic License isn't acceptable. I guess we'd have to try to
> >>get the code relicensed, or reimplement the function ourselves. There
> >>are numerous implementations out there we could copy from or use as a
> >>basis for reimplementation, including several licensed under the Apache
> >>2.0 license - is that compatible with ours?
> >
> >Perhaps a company large enough to have in-house counsel
> >(EnterpriseDB?) could get a quick legal opinion on the license
> >before we start pursuing other things? Perhaps this is just a
> >non-issue...
> 
> 
> The first para above was written by Dave Page, who works for EDB ....

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