GPL License

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.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.

Regards, Dave.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.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.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.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@zort.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.

"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:

From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.ca]
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.

You're failing to distinguish GPL from LGPL. The consensus as I recall
it was that we wanted to remove GPL-license stuff from our standard
distribution, but LGPL is okay (it's not so fundamentally incompatible
with the project's own BSD license).

I would rather see ODBC under BSD, sure, but I can live with LGPL.

regards, tom lane