Re: new food for the contrib/ directory - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: new food for the contrib/ directory
Date
Msg-id 200204181523.g3IFN3109244@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: new food for the contrib/ directory  (Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>)
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Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> Did we reach an opinion as to whether we'll include GPL'd code?
> 
> My vote is to not include this code, as it just muddies the water with
> PostgreSQL being BSD based.

Yes, our current policy is to add GPL to /contrib only when we have
little choice and the module is important.  I am not sure if the module
is even appropriate for /contrib.

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