| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | maartenb(at)dutepp0(dot)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Copyright question: GPL patches for non-GPL packages (fwd) |
| Date: | 1998-01-25 05:06:33 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980125010607.28536F-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I read this message on the debian development list. Thought it might be
> > > of interest to scrappy on the PostODBC thingie...
> >
> > Damn, to say I hate copyrights isn't saying enough :) Okay, I
> > guess the first thing to note is that PostODBC actually falls under the
> > LGPL vs the GPL, which appears to have slightly more lax restrictions on
> > how it gets included with other packages...
> >
> > Now, with that in mind, should we remove the PostODBC stuff from
> > the interfaces directory an dmove it to the contrib directory? Or remove
> > it all together? Or leave it where it is?
> >
>
> Leave it. The posting talks about intermixing source code. In our
> case, it is separate, and that is enough. BSDI ships GNU utilities, but
> does not have the entire OS under GPL, and that is GPL, not LGPL.
True enough...FreeBSD ships a bunch of GPL stuff as well, but its
core kernel is still under Berkeley :)
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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