Re: GPL License - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: GPL License
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Msg-id 20750.1027953485@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: GPL License  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
>> From: Rod Taylor [mailto:rbt@zort.ca] 
>> Given the GPL isn't wanted in the contrib directory, it may 
>> be wise to take care of src/interfaces/odbc/license.txt

> Take care of it how? It can't be just removed as everything under
> src/interfaces/odbc *is* LGPL.

You're failing to distinguish GPL from LGPL.  The consensus as I recall
it was that we wanted to remove GPL-license stuff from our standard
distribution, but LGPL is okay (it's not so fundamentally incompatible
with the project's own BSD license).

I would rather see ODBC under BSD, sure, but I can live with LGPL.
        regards, tom lane


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