Re: contrib and licensing

Tom Lane wrote:

>mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com> writes:
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>>I know nothing in contrib should be GPL, I have no problem with that. 
>>The question is the requirement of a GPL library to build a contrib project.
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>>My SOAP/XML function will probably require my LGPL library as there is a 
>>lot of code I have written that I would need to implement it.
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>If it won't work without your library then there's not much point in
>putting it into contrib.  Might as well just put it in your library
>and distribute same as you have been doing.
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I'm a little put off by this attitude, are you saying there are no LGPL 
dependencies in PostgreSQL or /contrib?

If that is a real objective, I'm surprised.