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Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps

Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Matt Kelly <mkelly@tripadvisor.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Matt Spilich <mspilich@tripadvisor.com>
Date: 2014-09-18T05:36:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
> In my understanding PostgreSQL's manual MUST include the ICU license
> term (this is not a problem).  What I am not so sure is, any software
> uses PostgreSQL also MUST include the ICU license or not. If yes, I
> think this is surely a problem.


It uses the MIT license, which is less restrictive than even the BSD
license. I believe one part (the Chinese/Japanese Word Break
Dictionary Data) is BSD Licensed, though:

https://ssl.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/license.html

I don't think licensing would be a problem.
-- 
Peter Geoghegan