Hi,
Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
>Adrian Custer wrote:
>
>>License Issue:
>>If we want to distribute the source in a usable form with PostgreSQL
>>then we must be able to license the code under the GPL or something
>>compatible. If ArcGIS is from ESRI then it is not Free so I don't think
>>PostGIS could use it. Also I have never quite understood if OpenMap
>>could be taken into a GPL project. I always assumed it could ut that is
>>
>>from a layman's reading of the license.
>
>Oops. I just realized that postgis will have to change its licence to BSD in order to be added to the postgresql distribution.
>
>T.
>
I'snt there some GPL/LGPL code in postgresql's contrib directory? ...
Yep. In contrib the array, string, and userlock modules have GPL headers
in the READMEs, as well as src/interfaces/odbc (LGPL) and
src/interfaces/perl5 (LGPL or Artistic). So a change in licence to BSD
style is probably is not necessary. Still need to check though - I
cannot quickly find confirmation in the copyright notices for the
distribution.
However these make no mention of GPL code. For that matter there is no
information on licencing in pgsql/contrib/README. However, from the
debian postgresql-contrib docs (/usr/doc/postgresql-contrib/copyright):
It was downloaded from
<ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql.7.0.2.tar.gz>
Copyright. The following copyright applies to the entire distribution:
PostgreSQL Data Base Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then
as Postgres95).
Copyright (c) 1994-7 Regents of the University of California
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written
agreement
is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this
paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.
<snip>
Confused yet? I am ...
cheers,
John
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