Re: initdb copyright notice

Yes, in cases where I take the entire file unchanged, I don't change the
copyright, but I think we can take the copyright of the project rather
than those of the individual files.

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Neil Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I have grabbed code from NetBSD before, and I just mention that fact at
> > the top of the file. There is no need to repeat their license as it is
> > the same as our license.
>
> src/port/qsort.c is wrong, then: (a) it includes the full NetBSD
> copyright/warranty statement (b) it claims to be covered by the 4
> clause BSD license.
>
> A quick grep of the source tree indicates that the following files
> claim to be covered by the 4 clause BSD license:
>
> $ grep -rlI 'This product includes software developed' *
> contrib/mysql/my2pg.pl
> contrib/pgcrypto/README.pgcrypto
> contrib/pgcrypto/blf.c
> contrib/pgcrypto/blf.h
> src/backend/port/darwin/system.c
> src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c
> src/backend/port/dynloader/netbsd.c
> src/backend/port/dynloader/openbsd.c
> src/backend/utils/mb/wstrcmp.c
> src/backend/utils/mb/wstrncmp.c
> src/port/crypt.c
> src/port/getopt.c
> src/port/getopt_long.c
> src/port/inet_aton.c
> src/port/qsort.c
> src/port/snprintf.c
> src/port/strtol.c
> src/port/strtoul.c
>
> -Neil
>

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