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Re: 7.4?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hervé Piedvache <herve@elma.fr>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, Joe Tomcat <tomcat@mobile.mp>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Darren Johnson <darren@up.hrcoxmail.com>, reynaud@elma.fr, pgreplication-general@gborg.postgresql.org
Date: 2003-02-26T15:24:39Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
=?iso-8859-15?q?Herv=E9=20Piedvache?= <herve@elma.fr> writes:
> Le Mercredi 26 Fvrier 2003 07:52, Tom Lane a crit :
>> But none of the available GC systems are BSD-license open source.  We
>> had had some hopes of getting Spread to offer BSD terms, but that seems
>> to have fallen through.  So right now, PG-R is on the outside looking
>> in, as far as inclusion in the core distribution goes :-(

> You mean the PG-R project will no be included in the PostgreSQL project 
> unless someone rewrite the Spread GCS concept or similar system in a BSD 
> licence ?

Well, we certainly won't be bundling Spread into the distribution if
it's not got a compatible license.  I had originally hoped that the
PG-R project would end by having a complete sync replication solution
included in the standard PG distribution, but that goal is looking out
of reach at the moment.

			regards, tom lane