Re: [PATCHES] license cleanup

2004-10-04 Thread Neil Conway
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 02:04, Neil Conway wrote: > This patch cleans up the licensing terms on some imported BSD-licensed > files in the source tree Patch applied. -Neil ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the u

Re: [PATCHES] license cleanup

2004-10-04 Thread Neil Conway
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 00:11, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > In my opinion, this is a completely pointless exercise in replacing > perfectly good code with code that we didn't know until today. Not > during beta please. Well, I think the chance of there being a bug in NetBSD's strtol/strtoul (that do

Re: [PATCHES] license cleanup

2004-10-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Neil Conway wrote: Attached is a patch that replaces src/port/{strtol.c,strtoul.c} with versions derived from current NetBSD CVS sources, which has a 3-clause BSD license. In my opinion, this is a completely pointless exercise in replacing perfectly good

Re: [PATCHES] license cleanup

2004-10-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Neil Conway wrote: > Attached is a patch that replaces src/port/{strtol.c,strtoul.c} with > versions derived from current NetBSD CVS sources, which has a > 3-clause BSD license. In my opinion, this is a completely pointless exercise in replacing perfectly good code with code that we didn't know u

Re: [PATCHES] license cleanup

2004-10-04 Thread Neil Conway
Tom Lane wrote: I think it is a real bad idea to unilaterally change the copyright text in files we got from somewhere else, no matter how benign our intentions. Agreed. Instead, how about adopting the NetBSD version of the functionality? If the files did indeed come from UCB originally, then NetBS

Re: [PATCHES] license cleanup

2004-10-03 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This patch cleans up the licensing terms on some imported BSD-licensed > files in the source tree: Looks good. > I was also going to update the licenses on files imported from FreeBSD, > but apparently they haven't bothered fixing their files to reflect