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Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps

Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>

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From: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Matthew Kelly <mkelly@tripadvisor.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Matthew Spilich <mspilich@tripadvisor.com>
Date: 2014-09-18T04:16:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > We use ICU with postgres for many years in our  mchar extension, which
> > provides  case-insensitive  text data type for popular  russian financial
> > system.  I don't know if we may ask ICU to give us special BSD-compatible
> > license ?
>
> I don't think that's necessary. Firebird uses ICU, and has similar
> licensing terms to PostgreSQL.
>

Firebird uses MPL license, which is compatible with GPL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License

>
> --
> Peter Geoghegan
>