On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, mlw wrote:
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> Tom Lane wrote:
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> >mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com> writes:
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> >>I know nothing in contrib should be GPL, I have no problem with that.
> >>The question is the requirement of a GPL library to build a contrib project.
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> >>My SOAP/XML function will probably require my LGPL library as there is a
> >>lot of code I have written that I would need to implement it.
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> >If it won't work without your library then there's not much point in
> >putting it into contrib. Might as well just put it in your library
> >and distribute same as you have been doing.
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> I'm a little put off by this attitude, are you saying there are no LGPL
> dependencies in PostgreSQL or /contrib?
In fact, yes ... or, at least, if there are any left in /contrib, its only
because we haven't moved them to gborg yet ...
> If that is a real objective, I'm surprised.
The base source tree has always been as BSD pure as we can make it ... its
never been kept a secret ...
