Re: Copyrights on files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Copyrights on files
Date
Msg-id 20070325032826.GF12087@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Copyrights on files  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Copyrights on files  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Copyrights on files  (mark@mark.mielke.cc)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Someone has pointed out to me that we have non-PostgreSQL/Berkeley
> copyrights on a number of files:
>     
>     src/port/rint.c
>     * Copyright (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
>     
>     src/backend/port/dynloader/aix.c
>     * This is an unpublished work copyright (c) 1992 HELIOS Software GmbH
>     * 30159 Hannover, Germany
>     
>     src/backend/port/dynloader/ultrix4.h
>     *  Copyright (c) 1993 Andrew K. Yu, University of California at Berkeley
>     *  All rights reserved.
>     ... BSD copyright text follows
>     
>     src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/UCS_to_GB18030.pl
>     # Copyright 2002 by Bill Huang
> 
> I have emailed Andrew Yu to see if we can remove his line, but I
> question whether the other people can be reached.
> 
> How should we handle this?

If they are released under the BSD license, why do we care about it?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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