Re: initdb copyright notice - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: initdb copyright notice
Date
Msg-id 3FB9216C.5040504@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: initdb copyright notice  (Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>)
Responses Re: initdb copyright notice  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Rod Taylor wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>>Neil Conway asked me if we need a copyright notice to cover the code I
>>borrowed from FreeBSD in initdb.c. I wasn't sure, but in case we do here
>>is a patch to include it.
>>
>>
>
>Unless I'm mistaken, all of the FreeBSD code is under the 3 clause
>license.
>
>However, the easiest way to find out is to look at the header of the
>files that you borrowed code from.
>
>We don't want the 4 clause unless necessary.
>

I C&P'd this directly from the file in question:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/mkdir/mkdir.c?rev=1.27&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Maybe the FreeBSD guys haven't updated all their notices correctly? This
notice has been unchanged in this file since 1994.

cheers

andrew


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