Re: Copyrights on files

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Someone has pointed out to me that we have non-PostgreSQL/Berkeley
>> copyrights on a number of files:
>>
>> src/port/rint.c
>> * Copyright (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
>>
>> src/backend/port/dynloader/aix.c
>> * This is an unpublished work copyright (c) 1992 HELIOS Software GmbH
>> * 30159 Hannover, Germany
>>
>> src/backend/port/dynloader/ultrix4.h
>> * Copyright (c) 1993 Andrew K. Yu, University of California at Berkeley
>> * All rights reserved.
>> ... BSD copyright text follows
>>
>> src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/UCS_to_GB18030.pl
>> # Copyright 2002 by Bill Huang
>>
>> I have emailed Andrew Yu to see if we can remove his line, but I
>> question whether the other people can be reached.
>>
>> How should we handle this?
>
> If they are released under the BSD license, why do we care about it?

Because BSD != BSD in all cases.

Consider the advertising clause for example.

Joshua D. Drake

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