Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file, - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file,
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Msg-id 25270.1141918870@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove Christof Petig copyright on include file,  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:31:47PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> The only copyright holder should be PostgreSQL Global
>> Development Group.

> Err, to do that someone would need to collect copyright assignments (ie
> signed documents) from every single contributer, including people no
> longer associated with the project. That is something you can do if you
> start doing it when the project starts but it way too late for that
> now.

Not for copyrights in the name of people who are still around, which is
99% of the issue.
        regards, tom lane


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