Re: [HACKERS] Re: Notation for nextval() (was Re: Several small patches)

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, jeroen(at)design(dot)nl, hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Notation for nextval() (was Re: Several small patches)
Date: 1999-12-17 18:10:41
Message-ID: 199912171810.NAA20265@candle.pha.pa.us
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Well, that's a royal mess. Guess we can remove the code if someone asks
us to? Not much more we can do.

> Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > Do we now have things in the code tree which do not carry two
> > copyrights, or just the Postgres Dev Group copyright plus a reference
> > to the full text in the docs?
>
> Seen some recently - wait...
>
> backend/optimizer/geqo/... (c) 1990 Darrell L. Whitley
>
> backend/port/inet_aton.* Outch - see below
> * This inet_aton() function was taken from the GNU C library and
> * incorporated into Postgres for those systems which do not have this
> * routine in their standard C libraries.
> *
> * The function was been extracted whole from the file inet_aton.c in
> * Release 5.3.12 of the Linux C library, which is derived from the
> * GNU C library, by Bryan Henderson in October 1996. The copyright
> * notice from that file is below.
>
> backend/port/snprintf.c (c) 1993 Eric P. Allman
> backend/port/dynloader/aix.* (c) 1992 HELIOS Software GmbH
> backend/port/dynloader/qnx4.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/port/qnx4/isnan.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/port/qnx4/rint.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/port/qnx4/sem.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/port/qnx4/shm.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/port/qnx4/tstrint.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/port/qnx4/tstsem.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/port/qnx4/tstshm.c (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH
> backend/regex/... (c) 1992, 1993, 1994 Henry Spencer.
> backend/utils/adt/float.c (c) 1994 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (line 1510)
> backend/utils/adt/geo_ops.c (c) 1995 <by John Franks>
> backend/utils/adt/inet_net_ntop.c (c) 1996 by Internet Software Consortium.
> backend/utils/adt/inet_net_pton.c (c) 1996 by Internet Software Consortium.
> backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c (c) Jan Wieck :-) - I'll remove that.
>
> backend/utils/mb/big5.c
> * conversion between BIG5 and Mule Internal Code(CNS 116643-1992
> * plane 1 and plane 2).
> * This program is partially copied from lv(Multilingual file viewer)
> * and slightly modified. lv is written and copyrighted by NARITA Tomio
> * (nrt(at)web(dot)ad(dot)jp).
>
> That's all I can find that quick.
>
>
> Jan
>
> --
>
> #======================================================================#
> # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #
> # Let's break this rule - forgive me. #
> #========================================= wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) #
>
>
>
> ************
>

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