Re: BSD advertizing clause in some files

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BSD advertizing clause in some files
Date: 2007-03-25 03:46:31
Message-ID: 4605F097.2080005@commandprompt.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Someone has pointed out that the following files have the 4-part BSD
> copyright, which includes the advertising clause:
>
> src/backend/port/darwin/system.c
> src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c
> src/backend/port/dynloader/openbsd.c
> src/backend/port/dynloader/netbsd.c
> src/backend/utils/mb/wstrcmp.c
> src/backend/utils/mb/wstrncmp.c
> src/port/strtoul.c
> src/port/getopt.c
> src/port/getopt_long.c
> src/port/inet_aton.c
> src/port/strtol.c
> src/port/snprintf.c
> contrib/pgcrypto/blf.c
> contrib/pgcrypto/blf.h
>
> Because Berkeley has said the advertising clause is to be
> ignored/removed, should we remove it from our files too?
>

Yes.

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