[HACKERS] GPL License
Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] GPL License
-Original Message- From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 14:39 To: PostgreSQL-development Subject: [HACKERS] GPL License Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt Take care of it how? It can't be just removed as everything under src/interfaces/odbc *is* LGPL. Regards, Dave. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Re: [HACKERS] GPL License
-Original Message- From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 14:39 To: PostgreSQL-development Subject: [HACKERS] GPL License Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt Take care of it how? It can't be just removed as everything under src/interfaces/odbc *is* LGPL. Generally you have to track down all contributors to the code and ask them 1) to assign the copyright to the group, and 2) if its ok to change the license on their bit. Doing 1 helps doing 2 later. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
Re: [HACKERS] GPL License
-Original Message- From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 14:44 To: Dave Page Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: RE: [HACKERS] GPL License -Original Message- From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 14:39 To: PostgreSQL-development Subject: [HACKERS] GPL License Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt Take care of it how? It can't be just removed as everything under src/interfaces/odbc *is* LGPL. Generally you have to track down all contributors to the code and ask them 1) to assign the copyright to the group, and 2) if its ok to change the license on their bit. Doing 1 helps doing 2 later. Yeah, I tried to do that with about 10 developers on pgAdmin I when I wanted to reuse some of the code on pgAdmin II (which has it's own licence). I eventually had to give up. psqlODBC has been LGPL much longer than it's has been in the main CVS. Originally it was written by Christian Czezatke and Dan McGuirk (1996), following them, Insight Distribution Systems (1996 - 1998 - Byron Nikolaidis + others iirc), then numerous PostgreSQL developers. Tracking down all the developers since Christian Dan would be a nightmare I suspect - especially as we don't (to my knowledge) have CVS logs prior to Apr 13 15:01:38 1998. I would like to see it under BSD licence though... Regards, Dave. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [HACKERS] GPL License
Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt Take care of it how? It can't be just removed as everything under src/interfaces/odbc *is* LGPL. You're failing to distinguish GPL from LGPL. The consensus as I recall it was that we wanted to remove GPL-license stuff from our standard distribution, but LGPL is okay (it's not so fundamentally incompatible with the project's own BSD license). I would rather see ODBC under BSD, sure, but I can live with LGPL. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
