On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:26:48PM +1000, Neil Dugan wrote:
> I thought it would only be needed if you where distributing the source for
> Postgresql.
>
> Does the copyright get distributed with the binary Debian packages?
> I haven't been able to find it on my Linux box.
Yes it does, in all binary packages. After all, you need to know the
terms of the GPL even if you only receive the binaries, given that the
licence of the binaries is the same as the source (derived works and
such).
If you look in /usr/share/doc/postgresql/copyright you find:
- Copyright notice for entire distribution
- Copyright notice for regex code
- Copyright notice for something copied from Tcl
> If it is, I would probably have to put a chapter explaining that it only
> applies to the libpq.so part of the executable.
The licence needs to be provided with anything you provide. If you
provide the backend or a frontend or anything. If there is no licence
then technically you're not allowed to have it. Only the author doesn't
need a licence to distribute.
It's a block of text which needs to be somewhere in the package, not
exactly an onerous requirement.
Although, being BSD licenced you could send it with any licence you
like. The point is, you need to say *somewhere* what it is.
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