Thread: Copyright waiver from Helios (fix for non-BSD copyright)
I have received the attached email from HELIOS Software GmbH giving us permission to change the licensing of HELIOS-contributed software to our project to the official BSD license. (I am BCC'ing them.) I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday, and then remove the non-BSD HELIOS copyright from CVS HEAD and all back branches. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helmut Tschemernjak wrote: > Dear Herr Seifert, > Dear Bruce Momjian, > > I am the founder and president of HELIOS Software, Jens-Uwe Mager left > in 2002 HELIOS. > > We agree to change to all contributions of HELIOS source codes for the > PostgreSQL project into a BSD License. > > If you have further questions please contact me. > > > best regards / mit freundlichen Gruessen, > > Helmut Tschemernjak > > > HELIOS Software GmbH > President -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday,
Why? That code is ten years obsolete.
regards, tom lane
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have received the attached email from HELIOS Software GmbH giving us > permission to change the licensing of HELIOS-contributed software to our > project to the official BSD license. (I am BCC'ing them.) > > I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday, > and then remove the non-BSD HELIOS copyright from CVS HEAD and all back > branches. Maybe we could just re-copyright the files in the back branches, and leave HEAD alone ... -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > I have received the attached email from HELIOS Software GmbH giving us > > permission to change the licensing of HELIOS-contributed software to our > > project to the official BSD license. (I am BCC'ing them.) > > > > I think we should re-add the AIX files we removed from CVS yesterday, > > and then remove the non-BSD HELIOS copyright from CVS HEAD and all back > > branches. > > Maybe we could just re-copyright the files in the back branches, and > leave HEAD alone ... OK, I thought there was some uncertainty about whether people were using the AIX code. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> OK, I thought there was some uncertainty about whether people were using
> the AIX code.
Somebody suggested that the code might be needed on pre-5.3 AIX. But
after I looked into the files and found out the code is only needed
pre *4.3*, I think the odds of anyone still wanting it are nil.
I concur with Alvaro: change the back branch copyrights and leave
HEAD as it is.
regards, tom lane
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > > OK, I thought there was some uncertainty about whether people were using > > the AIX code. > > Somebody suggested that the code might be needed on pre-5.3 AIX. But > after I looked into the files and found out the code is only needed > pre *4.3*, I think the odds of anyone still wanting it are nil. > > I concur with Alvaro: change the back branch copyrights and leave > HEAD as it is. Done. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +