From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Steven Singer <ssinger(at)navtechinc(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: contrib/dbmirror |
Date: | 2002-11-05 22:16:46 |
Message-ID: | 200211052216.gA5MGkq18334@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Steven Singer <ssinger(at)navtechinc(dot)com> writes:
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think the ideal solution would be for the dbmirror author(s) to agree
> >> to relicense it as BSD. If no go, then push it over to gborg.
>
> > I'm wiling to talk to some people here at Navtech about relicensing
> > dbmirror as BSD but, if its going to be moved to gborg anyway in 7.4 then
> > my preference would be to not relicense it.
> > If its going to stay in contrib for the forseable future(at least until
> > the postgres-r replication stuff is ready) then there's a good chance I
> > can arrange for it to be relicensed.
>
> I understand your feeling, but that leaves us with a hard decision.
> Marc wants to skinny down contrib, which means pushing out stuff that
> isn't fairly widely used. dbmirror being a new item, it doesn't have
> any track record of use; and so there's very little to set on the other
> side of the scales against the its-the-wrong-license argument.
>
> I haven't tried dbmirror myself, but it looks useful; I'd vote for
> keeping it in the distribution *if* the license is BSD. Otherwise
> I'll have to vote not to.
With no feedback from dbmirror author; added to TODO:
* Move dbmirror and rserv from /contrib to gborg.postgresql.org
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