Re: GPL Licensed Files in 8.1.4

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> writes:
> > At the same time, it strikes me that at least the userlock stuff, and
> > maybe dbmirror as well, are candidates for pgfoundry rather than
> > contrib/
>
> We'd already agreed to move dbmirror to pgfoundry, but it just didn't
> get done for 8.1. I had not thought of pgfoundry as a reasonable
> solution for userlock, but maybe that's the best thing to do with it.
>
> A better idea would be to contact the module authors and get them to
> relicense, but that might be hard. Dal Zotto at least hasn't been
> seen on these lists for a long time :-(

Here is the most recent feedback we have from Massimo:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-08/msg01001.php

> 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.

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