Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file, per author

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file, per author
Date: 2006-03-08 22:37:14
Message-ID: 20060308223714.GC9335@surnet.cl
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Log Message:
> > > -----------
> > > Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file, per author request.
> >
> > Huh, I thought what he actually told was that the file was released
> > under BSD license. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see him asking to
> > remove the copyright.
> >
> > We certainly have copyrights attributed to individual people. Jan Wieck
> > has his name on the PL/Tcl and PL/pgSQL files, for example.
>
> We should not have individual copyrights to individuals in our source
> tree. If Jan's is in there, it should be removed too (with his
> approval). The only copyright holder should be PostgreSQL Global
> Development Group.

Why give all our code to a organisation that doesn't exist?

On the $PostgreSQL$ issue, I think it's best to have the tag everywhere,
so if these files were the only ones that had it, I'd rather add them to
the rest ...

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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