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PostgreSQL 8.1.4 appears to have 2 GPL
licensed files according to licenses embedded in the source. In both
cases, the files have had a history of discussion within the PostgreSQL
forums. I'm hoping, through this question, to find more concrete
information that the GPL code is really approved to be licensed under the
PostgreSQL BSD license or to understand if there is a plan to update the
source to remove the GPL reference.
The 2 files are:
- user_lock code
from Massimo Dal Zotto
- clean_pending.pl
from Steve Singer, Navtech Systems
I noticed that Massimo Zotto posted
a forum answer back in 2001 (: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-08/msg01089.php)
but his statement that the file would be updated to non-GPL text seems
to not have been completed. Is there any other authorization or correspondence
stating his approval that the user_lock code is licensed to the PostgreSQL
project as BSD?
There was also a separate forum entry
(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-06/msg00350.php) on
clean_pending.pl where it was speculated that the GPL text was added in
error since the other source files in this directory are BSD. Has
Steve Singer forwarded an authorization that this file is licensed to the
PostgreSQL project as BSD?
Thank you,
Charles Comiskey
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
comiskey@xxxxxxxxxx
919.224.1223 or TL 687-1223
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