Re: [GENERAL] pg_filedump binary for CentOS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Boreham
Subject Re: [GENERAL] pg_filedump binary for CentOS
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] pg_filedump binary for CentOS  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] pg_filedump binary for CentOS
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  On 10/15/2010 7:24 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think that's a bad idea for all kinds of reasons.  For one thing, it
> seems that someone could easily end up copying some of that code into
> some other place.  It would be *nice* to have this available as part
> of our regular distribution but I don't want to take any risk of GPL
> contamination.

I think there's a tendency to assume that one license rules them all 
within a single package, tarball etc.

Just wondering what was the motivation to GPL this code ?
I mean, if I were to write a utility that was only useful for project X,
I'd want to license my code with the same (or a compatible) license
as X. I'd need a really good reason to use a different license.







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