Re: GPL Licensed Files in 8.1.4

On 6/7/2006 4:34 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> writes:
>> > At the same time, it strikes me that at least the userlock stuff, and
>> > maybe dbmirror as well, are candidates for pgfoundry rather than
>> > contrib/
>>
>> We'd already agreed to move dbmirror to pgfoundry, but it just didn't
>> get done for 8.1.  I had not thought of pgfoundry as a reasonable
>> solution for userlock, but maybe that's the best thing to do with it.
>>
>> A better idea would be to contact the module authors and get them to
>> relicense, but that might be hard.  Dal Zotto at least hasn't been
>> seen on these lists for a long time :-(
>
> Here is the most recent feedback we have from Massimo:
>
>  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-08/msg01001.php
>
>  > Regarding the licencing of the code, I always release my code under GPL,
>  > which is the licence I prefer, but my code in the backend is obviously
>  > released under the original postgres licence. Since the module is loaded
>  > dynamically and not linked into the backend I don't see a problem here.
>  > If the licence becomes a problem I can easily change it, but I prefer the
>  > GPL if possible.
>

Which means thus far he did not agree to the license change. Can we just
move the stuff over to pgfoundry and be done with it?


Jan

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