Re: QuickLZ compression algorithm (Re: Inclusion in the PostgreSQL backend for toasting rows)

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb(at)cuci(dot)nl> wrote:
> I'm not speaking for Lasse, merely providing food for thought, but it sounds
> feasible to me (and conforming to Lasse's spirit of his intended license)
> to put something like the following license on his code, which would allow
> inclusion into the PostgreSQL codebase and not restrict usage in any
> of the derived works:
>
> "Grant license to use the code in question without cost, provided that
> the code is being linked to at least 50% of the PostgreSQL code it is
> being distributed alongside with."
>
> This should allow commercial reuse in derived products without undesirable
> sideeffects.

I think Postgres becomes non-DFSG-free if this is done. All of a
sudden one can't pull arbitrary pieces of code out of PG and use them
in other projects (which I'd argue is the intent if not the letter of
the DFSG). Have we ever allowed code in on these terms before? Are
we willing to be dropped from Debian and possibly Red Hat if this is
the case?

-Doug