Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)
Date: 2005-06-08 16:38:42
Message-ID: 4157.1118248722@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Tom,
>> The fix for that is to remove or relicense those packages, not to
>> complicate the build process.

> OK. Then we'll make BSD licensing an absolute requirement for /contrib?

That's been the intention for a very long time: everything in the core
tarball should be under the same license. Someone's got to do the
legwork of contacting the module authors involved to see if they're
willing to relicense ... and so far it just hasn't gotten to the top
of the to-do queue.

regards, tom lane

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