Re: Personal Copyright Notices

Greg Stark wrote:
> So based on our discussion of last week my understanding is that as long as
> these people are content to release the code under the same license then
> these statements don't change anything since they're included in the
> Postgresql global development group anyways.

Yes, I believe that is correct. However, it is confusing to have their
copyrights mentioned in our code, so ideally the copyrights would be
removed.

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>
> greg
>
> On 2 Feb 2010 19:39, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Some more _personalized_ copyright noticed have crept into our source
> tree:
>
> /src/tutorial/basics.source Copyright (c) 1994, Andrew Yu, University of
> California
> /contrib/intagg/Makefile Copyright (c) 2001 Digital Music Network by
> Mark L. Woodward
> /src/port/rint.c Copyright (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation
> GmbH
> /contrib/isn/isn.c Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Germn Mndez Bravo
> (Kronuz)
> /contrib/isn/isn.h Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Germn Mndez Bravo
> (Kronuz)
> /src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/UCS_to_GB18030.pl Copyright 2002 by Bill
> Huang
>
> Does anyone have contacts to the other people listed? Ideally we can
> get them to send the list an email stating their copyright notice can be
> removed.
>
> Below is a summary of each item:
> --------------------------------
>
> I received permission from Andrew Yu to remove a copyright he had on
> another file in 2007:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01528.php
>
> I have emailed him to get approval to remove this mention also.
>
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>
> The intagg copyright is on a _Makefile_:
>
> # Makefile for integer aggregator
> # Copyright (C) 2001 Digital Music Network.
> # by Mark L. Woodward
> # $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/intagg/Makefile,v 1.10 2008/11/14
> 19:58:45 tgl Exp $
>
> Seems we either have to contact the author or rewrite the file.
>
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>
> The rint.c file is again tiny:
>
> * rint.c
> * rint() implementation
> *
> * Copyright (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
>
> Perhaps that just needs to be rewritten.
>
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>
> The ISN copyright looks like this:
>
> * Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Germ<E1>n M<E9>ndez Bravo (Kronuz)
> * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2010, PostgreSQL Global Development
> Group
>
> Interestingly, he mentions himself and PGDG both in the copyright, which
> makese this less of an issue. Looking at the ISN code, it appears he
> was the creator of the original file:
>
> revision 1.1
> date: 2006/09/09 04:07:52; author: tgl; state: Exp;
> Add contrib/isn module for ISBN/ISSN/EAN13/etc product numbers, and
> remove the old isbn_issn module which is about to be obsoleted by
> EAN13.
> contrib/isn is by Germ<E1>n M<E9>ndez Bravo. Our thanks to Garrett
> A.
> Wollman for having written the original isbn_issn module.
>
> and he asked about his copyright mention as part of the patch
> discussion:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00794.php
>
> I never saw the issue actually addressed and the copyright line was
> committed.
> Do people think it is acceptable?
>
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>
> The UCS_to_GB18030.pl is a Perl script with this at the top:
>
> # Copyright 2002 by Bill Huang
>
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