Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > At the same time, it strikes me that at least the userlock stuff, and > > maybe dbmirror as well, are candidates for pgfoundry rather than > > contrib/ > > We'd already agreed to move dbmirror to pgfoundry, but it just didn't > get done for 8.1. I had not thought of pgfoundry as a reasonable > solution for userlock, but maybe that's the best thing to do with it. > > A better idea would be to contact the module authors and get them to > relicense, but that might be hard. Dal Zotto at least hasn't been > seen on these lists for a long time :-( Here is the most recent feedback we have from Massimo: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-08/msg01001.php > Regarding the licencing of the code, I always release my code under GPL, > which is the licence I prefer, but my code in the backend is obviously > released under the original postgres licence. Since the module is loaded > dynamically and not linked into the backend I don't see a problem here. > If the licence becomes a problem I can easily change it, but I prefer the > GPL if possible. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
