Re: User locks code

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz(at)cs(dot)unitn(dot)it>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, vmikheev(at)sectorbase(dot)com, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: User locks code
Date: 2001-08-24 16:06:56
Message-ID: 20010824110656.C23091@rice.edu
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Uh, guys? The last thing I can find that Massimo says about the license
is this, from Sunday:

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:15:54PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
>
> Regarding the licencing of the code, I always release my code under GPL,
> which is the licence I prefer, but my code in the backend is obviously
> released under the original postgres licence. Since the module is loaded
> dynamically and not linked into the backend I don't see a problem here.
> If the licence becomes a problem I can easily change it, but I prefer the
> GPL if possible.
>

So, rather than going over everone's IANAL opinons about mixing
licenses, let's just let Massimo know that it'd just be a lot easier to
PostgreSQL/BSD license the whole thing, if he doesn't mind too much.

Ross

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:42:48AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
<I'm not sure who wrote this, Bruce trimmed the attribution>
> > Maybe it makes Massimo feel good ? It seems a worhty reason to me, as
> > he has contributed a lot of useful stuff over the time.
>
> Yes, that is probably it. The GPL doesn't give anything to users, it
> takes some control away from users and gives it to the author of the
> code.
>

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