Re: Personal Copyright Notices

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Personal Copyright Notices
Date: 2010-02-05 14:27:57
Message-ID: 201002051427.o15ERvq14112@momjian.us
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Greg Stark wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> The intagg copyright is on a _Makefile_:
> >>
> >> ? ? ? # Makefile for integer aggregator
> >> ? ? ? # Copyright (C) 2001 Digital Music Network.
> >> ? ? ? # by Mark L. Woodward
> >> ? ? ? # $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/intagg/Makefile,v 1.10 2008/11/14 19:58:45 tgl Exp $
> >>
> >> Seems we either have to contact the author or rewrite the file.
> >
> > I have rewritten the above file from scratch to enable removal of the
> > copyright mention.
> >
>
> Uhm, you rewrote it and it turned out byte-for-byte identical except
> for the removed copyright comments? Actually the file is trivial
> enough -- it's just our standard pgxs template with the two filenames
> inserted -- that that's plausible. I think that indicates that it
> wasn't really something copyrightable to begin with.

Right, I copied /contrib/intarray/Makefile and modified it. If it turns
out identical, so be it.

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