Copyright waiver from Helios (fix for non-BSD copyright)
I have received the attached email from HELIOS Software GmbH giving us
permission to change the licensing of HELIOS-contributed software to our
project to the official BSD license. (I am BCC'ing them.)
I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday,
and then remove the non-BSD HELIOS copyright from CVS HEAD and all back
branches.
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Helmut Tschemernjak wrote:
Dear Herr Seifert,
Dear Bruce Momjian,I am the founder and president of HELIOS Software, Jens-Uwe Mager left
in 2002 HELIOS.We agree to change to all contributions of HELIOS source codes for the
PostgreSQL project into a BSD License.If you have further questions please contact me.
best regards / mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Helmut Tschemernjak
HELIOS Software GmbH
President
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday,
Why? That code is ten years obsolete.
regards, tom lane
Bruce Momjian wrote:
I have received the attached email from HELIOS Software GmbH giving us
permission to change the licensing of HELIOS-contributed software to our
project to the official BSD license. (I am BCC'ing them.)I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday,
and then remove the non-BSD HELIOS copyright from CVS HEAD and all back
branches.
Maybe we could just re-copyright the files in the back branches, and
leave HEAD alone ...
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
I have received the attached email from HELIOS Software GmbH giving us
permission to change the licensing of HELIOS-contributed software to our
project to the official BSD license. (I am BCC'ing them.)I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday,
and then remove the non-BSD HELIOS copyright from CVS HEAD and all back
branches.Maybe we could just re-copyright the files in the back branches, and
leave HEAD alone ...
OK, I thought there was some uncertainty about whether people were using
the AIX code.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
OK, I thought there was some uncertainty about whether people were using
the AIX code.
Somebody suggested that the code might be needed on pre-5.3 AIX. But
after I looked into the files and found out the code is only needed
pre *4.3*, I think the odds of anyone still wanting it are nil.
I concur with Alvaro: change the back branch copyrights and leave
HEAD as it is.
regards, tom lane
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
OK, I thought there was some uncertainty about whether people were using
the AIX code.Somebody suggested that the code might be needed on pre-5.3 AIX. But
after I looked into the files and found out the code is only needed
pre *4.3*, I think the odds of anyone still wanting it are nil.I concur with Alvaro: change the back branch copyrights and leave
HEAD as it is.
Done.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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