Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file, per author

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Date: 2006-03-08T22:37:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Log Message:
> > > -----------
> > > Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file, per author request.
> > 
> > Huh, I thought what he actually told was that the file was released
> > under BSD license.  Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see him asking to
> > remove the copyright.
> > 
> > We certainly have copyrights attributed to individual people.  Jan Wieck
> > has his name on the PL/Tcl and PL/pgSQL files, for example.
> 
> We should not have individual copyrights to individuals in our source
> tree.  If Jan's is in there, it should be removed too (with his
> approval).  The only copyright holder should be PostgreSQL Global
> Development Group.

Why give all our code to a organisation that doesn't exist?

On the $PostgreSQL$ issue, I think it's best to have the tag everywhere,
so if these files were the only ones that had it, I'd rather add them to
the rest ...

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