On 19/01/11 05:51, Robert Haas wrote:
I'm not sure why they'd care, but it certainly doesn't seem worth
spending the amount of time arguing about it that we are. David and
Mark are, of course, free to spend their time petitioning Red Hat for
relicensing if they are so inclined, but they aren't
2011/1/18 Robert Haas :
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter writes:
>>> I'm guessing there's a PolicyŽ at Red Hat that software made on its
>>> dime be GPL (v2, I'd guess), and that getting an exception would
>>> involve convening its board or similarly drastic act
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter writes:
>> I'm guessing there's a PolicyŽ at Red Hat that software made on its
>> dime be GPL (v2, I'd guess), and that getting an exception would
>> involve convening its board or similarly drastic action.
>
> It's company policy,
David Fetter writes:
> I'm guessing there's a Policy® at Red Hat that software made on its
> dime be GPL (v2, I'd guess), and that getting an exception would
> involve convening its board or similarly drastic action.
It's company policy, and while it *might* be possible to get an
exception, the e
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:14:41PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> On 18/01/11 18:04, Tom Lane wrote:
> >David Fetter writes:
> >>Who's the copyright holder(s)? If it's all individual
> >>contributors, Red Hat policy is not in play.
> >Sorry David, it was written on the company's dime.
>
> However
On 18/01/11 18:04, Tom Lane wrote:
David Fetter writes:
Who's the copyright holder(s)? If it's all individual contributors,
Red Hat policy is not in play.
Sorry David, it was written on the company's dime.
However, I doubt that Red Hat derives any value from this useful product
being excl
David Fetter writes:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:48:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> (Before someone suggests folding it into contrib/: we can't because
>> of license issues. pg_filedump is GPL, per Red Hat company policy,
>> and that's not going to change.)
> Who's the copyright holder(s)? If i
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:48:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I've gotten permission to move pg_filedump from its former home at
> sources.redhat.com to pgfoundry. You can find the historical release
> tarballs as well as current sources at
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgfiledump/
>
> One
