Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include
Date: 2006-03-10 14:53:31
Message-ID: 441192EB.4040001@Yahoo.com
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On 3/8/2006 5:31 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > Log Message:
>> > -----------
>> > Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file, per author request.
>>
>> Huh, I thought what he actually told was that the file was released
>> under BSD license. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see him asking to
>> remove the copyright.
>>
>> We certainly have copyrights attributed to individual people. Jan Wieck
>> has his name on the PL/Tcl and PL/pgSQL files, for example.
>
> We should not have individual copyrights to individuals in our source
> tree. If Jan's is in there, it should be removed too (with his
> approval). The only copyright holder should be PostgreSQL Global
> Development Group.
>
> Jan, would you fix that?

We've been there before, and not only once. I wonder why we still find
more of these, because every time it comes up I agree to removal of it.

Jan

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