Re: contrib/dbmirror

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Steven Singer <ssinger(at)navtechinc(dot)com> writes:
> > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> I think the ideal solution would be for the dbmirror author(s) to agree
> > >> to relicense it as BSD. If no go, then push it over to gborg.
> >
> > > I'm wiling to talk to some people here at Navtech about relicensing
> > > dbmirror as BSD but, if its going to be moved to gborg anyway in 7.4 then
> > > my preference would be to not relicense it.
> > > If its going to stay in contrib for the forseable future(at least until
> > > the postgres-r replication stuff is ready) then there's a good chance I
> > > can arrange for it to be relicensed.
> >
> > I understand your feeling, but that leaves us with a hard decision.
> > Marc wants to skinny down contrib, which means pushing out stuff that
> > isn't fairly widely used. dbmirror being a new item, it doesn't have
> > any track record of use; and so there's very little to set on the other
> > side of the scales against the its-the-wrong-license argument.
> >
> > I haven't tried dbmirror myself, but it looks useful; I'd vote for
> > keeping it in the distribution *if* the license is BSD. Otherwise
> > I'll have to vote not to.
>
> With no feedback from dbmirror author; added to TODO:
>
> * Move dbmirror and rserv from /contrib to gborg.postgresql.org

Looks good to me ...