Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Mount <petermount(at)it(dot)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk> writes:
> > Just a thought: How does this affect anything placed in the contrib
> > directory? If someone writes a tool under the GPL, can it be included
> > under the src/contrib directory, or would we fall foul just because it's
> > included with our source?
>
> Good question. The GPL contains a clause to the effect that "mere
> aggregation" of a GPL'd piece of code in a source distribution with
> unrelated pieces of code is OK, even if those other pieces of code
> are not GPL'd. But the contrib directory is not exactly unrelated
> to the main Postgres distribution, so I'm not sure that we can point
> to this clause to justify putting a GPL'd program in contrib. It'd
> be a gray area...

Items in the contrib section aren't required for the use of PostgreSQL,
however PostgreSQL *is* required to use those items. So shouldn't the
items in contrib have to change to a Berkeley style license? :)

I mean it's only fair!

Vince.
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