Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-06-22T18:40:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom,

> [ shrug... ]  I'm not planning to panic; we've still got explicit GPL
> code that's not been cleaned out of contrib/ yet.  (Um, weren't you on
> the hook to move those modules to pgfoundry projects?)

Yeah, thanks for reminding me.   Will do before feature freeze.  As soon as 
I can figure out how to generate a patch that removes directories.

> I think we should endeavor to clean up any license questions going
> forward, but it's useless to worry about the back branches; they are
> what they are, and anyone who actually wants to sue us could do so
> anyway on the strength of releases already out there.

Hmmm ... I don't know.  I'd be in favor of providing patches in case people 
care enough to fix the issue.  Maybe not until the next general patch 
release, but with that.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco