Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions
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Msg-id 200606250145.k5P1jjD24258@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
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Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:37:08AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > item #3: Carsten Wolff copyright in informix.c file
> > > The file informix.c contains a copyright from Carsten Wolff.  Did Carsten
> > > directly contribute this file to the PostgreSQL project?
> >
> > This code was added by Michael Meskes in informix.c rev 1.6
> > (2003-05-06).  Michael, any info on the exact copyright status?
>
> Yes. In fact the copyright belongs to credativ GmbH the company that
> paid Carsten for his work. As you may or may not know I'm the CEO of
> that company and can assure you that his work was contributed to the
> PostgreSQL project.

Michael, I saw your patch stating that the copyright was assigned to
PGDG.  However, once that happens, we are of the policy to remove
copyrights to individual users because it confuses things.

Therefore, I have updated your applied patch to just mention the
author's name, email address, and date.

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Index: src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/informix.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/informix.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -c -c -r1.44 informix.c
*** src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/informix.c    23 Jun 2006 14:50:01 -0000    1.44
--- src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/informix.c    25 Jun 2006 01:41:06 -0000
***************
*** 666,679 ****
      return 0;
  }

! /***************************************************************************
!                           rfmt.c  -  description
!                              -------------------
!     begin                 : Wed Apr 2 2003
!     copyright             : (C) 2003 by Carsten Wolff
!     email                 : carsten.wolff@credativ.de
!     Contributed under the PostgreSQL License by credativ GmbH
!  ***************************************************************************/

  static struct
  {
--- 666,675 ----
      return 0;
  }

! /*
!  *    rfmt.c  -  description
!  *    by Carsten Wolff <carsten.wolff@credativ.de>, Wed Apr 2 2003
!  */

  static struct
  {

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