Hi, > Well, I don't think there's ever a 100% assurance in IP matters, > but... here's what > we know AND here's what we would like to advertise to the consumers of HAWQ: > A certain set of file (how we advertise the filenames is TBD, but > likely in LICENSE)... > 1. ...came from PostgreSQL project version 8. With 8.1.0 being a > bulk of the import, but > with a few files that came from older PG releases > > 2. ...may have been initially released under whatever license, but > then were made > available by the PostgreSQL project under the PostgreSQL license > (which is a BSD > derivative and compatible with ALv2) > > 3. ...to the best of our software archeology analysis we can trust > PostgreSQL community > on the statement in #2
I think that fine approach. This is one issue here the license in 2 may not be Apache compatible. For example I come across a MIT licensed package the other week that contained GPL licensed files inside it. Thanks, Justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
