Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: dawninghu(at)gmail(dot)com, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch
Date: 2013-07-04 15:51:37
Message-ID: CA+TgmobqidsrhP19=aHfrFCZoATdSn8gMTRh1rJNNqTShSJN7g@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 5) Your code copies a function from TOMOYO Linux, which is under GPL2
> license, so I believe that this cannot be integrated to Postgres which
> is under PostgreSQL license (more permissive). Just based on that some
> portions of this code cannot be included in Postgres, I am not sure
> but this gives a sufficient reason to reject this patch.

We definitely cannot accept any GPL code into PostgreSQL.

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Robert Haas
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