Re: [HACKERS] Re: Copyright question: GPL patches for non-GPL packages (fwd)

On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> >
> > On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I read this message on the debian development list. Thought it might be
> > > of interest to scrappy on the PostODBC thingie...
> >
> >     Damn, to say I hate copyrights isn't saying enough :)  Okay, I
> > guess the first thing to note is that PostODBC actually falls under the
> > LGPL vs the GPL, which appears to have slightly more lax restrictions on
> > how it gets included with other packages...
> >
> >     Now, with that in mind, should we remove the PostODBC stuff from
> > the interfaces directory an dmove it to the contrib directory?  Or remove
> > it all together?  Or leave it where it is?
> >
>
> Leave it.  The posting talks about intermixing source code.  In our
> case, it is separate, and that is enough.  BSDI ships GNU utilities, but
> does not have the entire OS under GPL, and that is GPL, not LGPL.

    True enough...FreeBSD ships a bunch of GPL stuff as well, but its
core kernel is still under Berkeley :)

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org