| From: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
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| To: | mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: contrib and licensing |
| Date: | 2003-04-01 21:31:16 |
| Message-ID: | 1049232676.35327.115.camel@jester |
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On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:31, mlw wrote:
> I know nothing in contrib should be GPL, I have no problem with that.
> The question is the requirement of a GPL library to build a contrib project.
>
> My SOAP/XML function will probably require my LGPL library as there is a
> lot of code I have written that I would need to implement it.
>
> Is there any sort of philosophical problem with that?
There is a big difference between an LGPL'd library and a GPL'd library.
The latter may have problems as I believe your code should be GPL'd, but
the former should be fine.
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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
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