Re: new food for the contrib/ directory

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Andreas Scherbaum <adsmail(at)htl(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: new food for the contrib/ directory
Date: 2002-04-18 15:23:03
Message-ID: 200204181523.g3IFN3109244@candle.pha.pa.us
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Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Did we reach an opinion as to whether we'll include GPL'd code?
>
> My vote is to not include this code, as it just muddies the water with
> PostgreSQL being BSD based.

Yes, our current policy is to add GPL to /contrib only when we have
little choice and the module is important. I am not sure if the module
is even appropriate for /contrib.

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