Re: contrib and licensing

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com
Cc: JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com, scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: contrib and licensing
Date: 2003-04-03 17:16:51
Message-ID: 20030403131509.D87023@hub.org
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com wrote:

> If I find a wiz-bang library that allows me to do something cool very
> easily, and I write a some code that would be good for postgresql's
> contrib, are you saying that it would not be usable because of the
> requirement of the library that is not included on standard system
> installations?

My two-bits here, but we're trying to *move* things out of contrib to
gborg, like we have for most of the language interfaces ... why is/should
this be any different? I don't care what licence it falls under, new
contrib's should be going into gborg, not into the distribution itself ...

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