Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> We use ICU with postgres for many years in our mchar extension, which
>> provides case-insensitive text data type for popular russian financial
>> system. I don't know if we may ask ICU to give us special BSD-compatible
>> license ?
>
> I don't think that's necessary. Firebird uses ICU, and has similar
> licensing terms to PostgreSQL.

http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/license.html

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In my understanding PostgreSQL's manual MUST include the ICU license
term (this is not a problem). What I am not so sure is, any software
uses PostgreSQL also MUST include the ICU license or not. If yes, I
think this is surely a problem.

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Tatsuo Ishii
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