Re: User locks code

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>, Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-24T16:03:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> 
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I definitely agree with Vadim here: it's fairly silly that the
> > > > contrib userlock code is GPL'd, when it consists only of a few dozen
> > > > lines of wrapper for the real functionality that's in the main backend.
> > > 
> > 
> > I was incorrect in something I said to Vadim.  I said stored procedures
> > would have to be released if linked against a GPL'ed backend. 
> 
> Only to those you actually distribute this product to. If you're using
> it internally, you have no obligations to release it to anyone, to
> give one example.

Yes, I was speaking only of selling the software.  Good point.
 
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