Hi,

On 2023-01-22 19:28:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> > I think I've proposed this before, but I still think that as long as we rely
> > on pg_bsd_indent, we should have it be part of our source tree and
> > automatically built.  It's no wonder that barely anybody indents their
> > patches, given that it requires building pg_bsd_ident in a separate repo 
> > (but
> > referencing our sourc etree), putting the binary in path, etc.
> 
> Hmm ... right offhand, the only objection I can see is that the
> pg_bsd_indent files use the BSD 4-clause license, which is not ours.
> However, didn't UCB grant a blanket exception years ago that said
> that people could treat that as the 3-clause license?

Yep:
https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license/


NOTE: The copyright of UC Berkeley’s Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") 
source has been updated. The copyright addendum may be found at 
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change and is included 
below.

    July 22, 1999

    To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:

    As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source 
code files require that further distributions of products containing all or 
portions of the software, acknowledge within their advertising materials that 
such products contain software developed by UC Berkeley and its contributors.

    Specifically, the provision reads:

          * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this 
software
          *    must display the following acknowledgement:
          *    This product includes software developed by the University of
          *    California, Berkeley and its contributors."

    Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer required to 
include the acknowledgement within advertising materials. Accordingly, the 
foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix files containing it is hereby deleted in 
its entirety.

    William Hoskins
    Director, Office of Technology Licensing
    University of California, Berkeley


I did check, and the FTP bit is still downloadable. A bit awkward though, now
that browsers have/are removing ftp support.


Greetings,

Andres Freund


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