Re: Patch license update to developer's FAQ

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch license update to developer's FAQ
Date: 2007-03-03 17:17:33
Message-ID: 200703031717.l23HHXc24139@momjian.us
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>>> I have added to the developer's FAQ that we don't want
> >>>> non-BSD-compatible licensed patches:
> >>> How frequently is this actually a problem?
> >> Every single time someone submits a patch with no license but with a big
> >> legal disclaimer in their signature. Which is why this all came about.
> >
> > Well, if we want to guard against that, we will have to be explicit
> > about it because the old wording didn't address this directly.
>
> The wording you just posted up thread seemed to...

The issue is that people with those signatures don't think they are
submitting under a non-BSD license. I thought you were saying we need
to address that directly.

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