Re: run pgindent on a regular basis / scripted manner

Hi,

On 2023-01-22 19:28:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I think I've proposed this before, but I still think that as long as we rely
> > on pg_bsd_indent, we should have it be part of our source tree and
> > automatically built. It's no wonder that barely anybody indents their
> > patches, given that it requires building pg_bsd_ident in a separate repo (but
> > referencing our sourc etree), putting the binary in path, etc.
>
> Hmm ... right offhand, the only objection I can see is that the
> pg_bsd_indent files use the BSD 4-clause license, which is not ours.
> However, didn't UCB grant a blanket exception years ago that said
> that people could treat that as the 3-clause license?

Yep:
https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license/

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I did check, and the FTP bit is still downloadable. A bit awkward though, now
that browsers have/are removing ftp support.

Greetings,

Andres Freund