Re: contrib/pg_filedump - PostgreSQL File Dump Utility

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Patrick Macdonald <patrickm(at)redhat(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, darcy(at)druid(dot)net
Subject: Re: contrib/pg_filedump - PostgreSQL File Dump Utility
Date: 2002-02-06 23:22:49
Message-ID: 200202062322.g16NMnY13103@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > A larger issue is that this code wants to be in contrib. I don't see
> > any other GPL code in contrib.
>
> You didn't look very hard then; a grep for 'General Public License' finds
>

Yea, I looked only for GPL, not the longer string. Good find.

> as well as hits in ODBC, some autoconf input files, and flex and bison
> output files. The autoconf/flex/bison hits are not a problem because
> those have special exemption clauses in their licenses. And ODBC uses
> LGPL, which doesn't have the "viral" properties of GPL, so it's not a
> threat to the rest of our distribution.
>
> I do have concerns about including these six contrib modules in our
> distribution, however. It could be argued that the terms of the GPL
> forbid that.

Yes, I see your point. We better figure out what we need to do, if
anything, and do it. I don't see any key pieces in that listing.

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