Greg Smith wrote: > Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > Even if tests and examples code aren't almost never distributed except > > in the psycopg2 source package? A couple of other people contributed to > > the tests: if you really feel like it is so important I'll contact them > > and ask their permission to use the LGPL3 + exception (the contribution > > was without the exception) or remove the code (we won't lose much.) > > > > I understand that from a technical perspective these are all different > bits. But the sort of people who get stressed about licenses might not, > and that's why it's always better to have a simple, standard, unified > license that covers the entire chunk of software you're packaging. If > the examples show up in the source package, that means the source > package has two licenses instead of one, and that's a bad thing. It's > not a huge issue, I'm just afraid that if you don't get this nailed down > now there's just going to another round of this tedious license > investigation in the future one day. I'd think it's better for you and > everyone else in the long run to just completely unify the license. > > And if takes another release for the examples to get that license > change, I think that's OK. I wouldn't hold up the big work > here--getting your next release out with the big LGPL3 switch for the > main code--over this bit of trivia. I just think it's a potential > future headache you should try to remove when you can.
Agreed. A single license is easier unless there is some value in having two licenses. Doing another release to improve the license is certainly worthwhile. I also want to thank you for being flexible on this licensing issue. I never suspected we would come up with a solution so quickly. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
