Re: PostgreSQL Licensing Question for pg_crypto and tablefunc extensions

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: Rumpi Gravenstein <rgravens(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Licensing Question for pg_crypto and tablefunc extensions
Date: 2021-02-26 19:06:00
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZeuyZ4oWcyOjUVmK2aH0pv8UziWNC4Rw4FEw7=2b-CEQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:01 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> Which refers to COPYRIGHT:
>
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=COPYRIGHT;h=655a3c59d60f54a824cc8ad6c94a4522f2b465cd;hb=HEAD
>
>
The COPYRIGHT file indeed is serving as the in-repo documentation of our
license. My only gripe is that it fails to explicitly say "The PostgreSQL
License", per [1].

As the COPYRIGHT file exists at the top of the repo all source code
underneath, including the contrib directory, is covered.

[1] https://opensource.org/licenses/postgresql

David J.

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