contrib/fuzzystrmatch/dmetaphone.c license

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: contrib/fuzzystrmatch/dmetaphone.c license
Date: 2015-02-24 12:24:32
Message-ID: 54EC6D80.5090507@vmware.com
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contrib/fuzzystrmatch/dmetaphone.c says this:

> /***************************** COPYRIGHT NOTICES ***********************
>
> Most of this code is directly from the Text::DoubleMetaphone perl module
> version 0.05 available from http://www.cpan.org.
> It bears this copyright notice:
>
>
> Copyright 2000, Maurice Aubrey <maurice(at)hevanet(dot)com>.
> All rights reserved.
>
> This code is based heavily on the C++ implementation by
> Lawrence Philips and incorporates several bug fixes courtesy
> of Kevin Atkinson <kevina(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>.
>
> This module is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
> modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Is that OK? Perl is dual-licensed under the GPL and the "Artistic
License", so the question is whether the Artistic License is compatible
with the PostgreSQL license. IANAL, but I couldn't immediately figure
out what the Artistic License requires, when you pick a piece of code
and modify and embed it in another project.

- Heikki

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