Re: GPL Licensed Files in 8.1.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: GPL Licensed Files in 8.1.4
Date
Msg-id 200606011515.50992.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to GPL Licensed Files in 8.1.4  (Charles Comiskey <comiskey@us.ibm.com>)
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Am Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2006 16:50 schrieb Charles Comiskey:
> 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

The GPL-licensed files are GPL-licensed.

> or to
> understand if there is a plan to update the source to remove the GPL
> reference.

Yes, but that will entail removing or rewriting the code or the author(s)
giving permission to change the license, not just removing the reference.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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