| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, Massimo Dal Zotto <dz(at)cs(dot)unitn(dot)it>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: User locks code |
| Date: | 2001-08-24 00:31:56 |
| Message-ID: | 200108240031.f7O0VuM02195@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I definitely agree with Vadim here: it's fairly silly that the
> contrib userlock code is GPL'd, when it consists only of a few dozen
> lines of wrapper for the real functionality that's in the main backend.
> The only thing this licensing setup can accomplish is to discourage
> people from using the userlock code; what's the value of that?
>
> Besides, anyone who actually wanted to use the userlock code would need
> only to write their own wrapper functions to get around the GPL license.
Hey, I agree with Vadim too. The GPL license is just a roadblock, but I
can't tell Massimo what to do with his code if it is not in the backend
proper.
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