Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Bort, Paul" <pbort(at)tmwsystems(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions
Date: 2006-06-22 21:22:19
Message-ID: 7160.1151011339@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Bort, Paul wrote:
>>> so presumably this is only needed for old Cygwin versions. Can anyone
>>> say how old "1001" is and whether we still ought to care about it?
>>
>> IIRC, I've been on 1.5.x for at least three years. 1.0/1.1 seems to be
>> around 2000/2001, based on a quick Google. So it's definitely older than
>> PG 7.3.

> 1.3 was announced in May 2001 according to the cygwin announce mailing
> list archives, so I think we can safely ignore the section in question.

OK, so let's yank the file altogether and see what happens.

I can make a cut at fixing the makefiles based on removing references to
DLLINIT, but it might be better if someone who's in a position to test
the results on Windows did the patch ...

regards, tom lane

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