Re: contrib and licensing

From: pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: contrib and licensing
Date: 2003-04-03 16:36:55
Message-ID: 1350.141.154.39.187.1049387815.squirrel@mail.mohawksoft.com
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> pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com writes:
> We have taken a policy decision to keep the PG core distribution
> (including contrib) straight BSD license --- and in my mind that
> definitely includes not depending on any outside functionality that is
> both (a) essential and (b) not available anywhere as BSD-license code.
> It should be possible to build a PG installation that is pure BSD.
> Whether people actually choose to do so is not the point.

OK, that is more or less the answer to the question I originally posed.

Thanks.

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