Re: GPL License

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt(at)zort(dot)ca]
> Sent: 29 July 2002 14:44
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] GPL License
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt(at)zort(dot)ca]
> > > Sent: 29 July 2002 14:39
> > > To: PostgreSQL-development
> > > Subject: [HACKERS] GPL License
> > >
> > >
> > > Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may
> > > be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt
> >
> > Take care of it how? It can't be just removed as everything under
> > src/interfaces/odbc *is* LGPL.
>
> Generally you have to track down all contributors to the code
> and ask them 1) to assign the copyright to the group, and 2)
> if its ok to change the license on their bit.
>
> Doing 1 helps doing 2 later.

Yeah, I tried to do that with about 10 developers on pgAdmin I when I
wanted to reuse some of the code on pgAdmin II (which has it's own
licence). I eventually had to give up.

psqlODBC has been LGPL much longer than it's has been in the main CVS.
Originally it was written by Christian Czezatke and Dan McGuirk (1996),
following them, Insight Distribution Systems (1996 - 1998 - Byron
Nikolaidis + others iirc), then numerous PostgreSQL developers. Tracking
down all the developers since Christian & Dan would be a nightmare I
suspect - especially as we don't (to my knowledge) have CVS logs prior
to Apr 13 15:01:38 1998.

I would like to see it under BSD licence though...

Regards, Dave.