Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:45:42AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter,
>
> > Packagers should simply build all contrib items. No extra options are
> > needed.
>
> No, they shoudn't. 3 of the packages currently in /contrib are GPL.
> Building them makes all of PostgreSQL GPL.

No, it means the distributors are illegally distributing software they
don't have permission to distribute. The GPL doesn't make everything
else GPL right away, that's a myth.

The only entity that can change PostgreSQL's license is the copyright
owner. Since it's a rather big and unidentified entity, that's
difficult. So the only lawful (legal?) way to distribute a binary
PostgreSQL distribution is to refrain from distributing GPL-licensed
contrib modules.

Or we could remove them from contrib.

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