Re: User locks code

Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>

From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
To: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, vmikheev@sectorbase.com, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2001-08-24T16:06:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Uh, guys? The last thing I can find that Massimo says about the license
is this, from Sunday:

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:15:54PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> 
> Regarding the licencing of the code, I always release my code under GPL,
> which is the licence I prefer, but my code in the backend is obviously
> released under the original postgres licence. Since the module is loaded
> dynamically and not linked into the backend I don't see a problem here.
> If the licence becomes a problem I can easily change it, but I prefer the
> GPL if possible.
> 

So, rather than going over everone's IANAL opinons about mixing
licenses, let's just let Massimo know that it'd just be a lot easier to
PostgreSQL/BSD license the whole thing, if he doesn't mind too much.

Ross

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:42:48AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
<I'm not sure who wrote this, Bruce trimmed the attribution>
> > Maybe it makes Massimo feel good ? It seems a worhty reason to me, as 
> > he has contributed a lot of useful stuff over the time.
> 
> Yes, that is probably it.  The GPL doesn't give anything to users, it
> takes some control away from users and gives it to the author of the
> code.
>