Re: Personal Copyright Notices - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Personal Copyright Notices
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Msg-id 201002051427.o15ERvq14112@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Personal Copyright Notices  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> The intagg copyright is on a _Makefile_:
> >>
> >> ? ? ? # Makefile for integer aggregator
> >> ? ? ? # Copyright (C) 2001 Digital Music Network.
> >> ? ? ? # by Mark L. Woodward
> >> ? ? ? # $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/intagg/Makefile,v 1.10 2008/11/14 19:58:45 tgl Exp $
> >>
> >> Seems we either have to contact the author or rewrite the file.
> >
> > I have rewritten the above file from scratch to enable removal of the
> > copyright mention.
> >
> 
> Uhm, you rewrote it and it turned out byte-for-byte identical except
> for the removed copyright comments? Actually the file is trivial
> enough -- it's just our standard pgxs template with the two filenames
> inserted -- that that's plausible. I think that indicates that it
> wasn't really something copyrightable to begin with.

Right, I copied /contrib/intarray/Makefile and modified it.  If it turns
out identical, so be it.

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