Re: Personal Copyright Notices

<p>So based on our discussion of last week my understanding is that as long as these people are content to release the
codeunder the same license then these statements don't change anything since they're included in the Postgresql global
developmentgroup anyways.<br /><br /><p>greg<p><blockquote type="cite">On 2 Feb 2010 19:39, "Bruce Momjian" <<a
href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>>wrote:<br /><br />Some more _personalized_ copyright noticed
havecrept into our source<br /> tree:<br /><br />  /src/tutorial/basics.source    Copyright (c) 1994, Andrew Yu,
Universityof California<br />  /contrib/intagg/Makefile       Copyright (c) 2001 Digital Music Network by Mark L.
Woodward<br/>  /src/port/rint.c               Copyright (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation GmbH<br />  /contrib/isn/isn.c  
         Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Germn Mndez Bravo (Kronuz)<br />  /contrib/isn/isn.h             Copyright (c)
2004-2006,Germn Mndez Bravo (Kronuz)<br />  /src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/UCS_to_GB18030.pl    Copyright 2002 by Bill
Huang<br/><br /> Does anyone have contacts to the other people listed?  Ideally we can<br /> get them to send the list
anemail stating their copyright notice can be<br /> removed.<br /><br /> Below is a summary of each item:<br />
--------------------------------<br/><br /> I received permission from Andrew Yu to remove a copyright he had on<br />
anotherfile in 2007:<br /><br />        <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01528.php"
target="_blank">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01528.php</a><br/><br /> I have emailed him to
getapproval to remove this mention also.<br /><br />
---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br /> The intagg copyright is on a
_Makefile_:<br/><br />        # Makefile for integer aggregator<br />        # Copyright (C) 2001 Digital Music
Network.<br/>        # by Mark L. Woodward<br />        # $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/intagg/Makefile,v 1.10 2008/11/14
19:58:45tgl Exp $<br /><br /> Seems we either have to contact the author or rewrite the file.<br /><br />
---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br /> The rint.c file is again
tiny:<br/><br />  * rint.c<br />  *    rint() implementation<br />  *<br />  * Copyright (c) 1999, repas AEG Automation
GmbH<br/><br /> Perhaps that just needs to be rewritten.<br /><br />
---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br /> The ISN copyright looks like
this:<br/><br />         * Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Germ<E1>n M<E9>ndez Bravo (Kronuz)<br />         *
PortionsCopyright (c) 1996-2010, PostgreSQL Global Development Group<br /><br /> Interestingly, he mentions himself and
PGDGboth in the copyright, which<br /> makese this less of an issue.  Looking at the ISN code, it appears he<br /> was
thecreator of the original file:<br /><br />        revision 1.1<br />        date: 2006/09/09 04:07:52;  author: tgl;
 state:Exp;<br />        Add contrib/isn module for ISBN/ISSN/EAN13/etc product numbers, and<br />        remove the
oldisbn_issn module which is about to be obsoleted by EAN13.<br />        contrib/isn is by Germ<E1>n
M<E9>ndezBravo.  Our thanks to Garrett A.<br />        Wollman for having written the original isbn_issn
module.<br/><br /> and he asked about his copyright mention as part of the patch<br /> discussion:<br /><br />      
 <ahref="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00794.php"
target="_blank">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00794.php</a><br/><br /> I never saw the issue
actuallyaddressed and the copyright line was committed.<br /> Do people think it is acceptable?<br /><br />
---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br /> The UCS_to_GB18030.pl is a Perl
scriptwith this at the top:<br /><br />        # Copyright 2002 by Bill Huang<br /><br /> --<br />  Bruce Momjian
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