On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:28:42PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> I think I've proposed this before, but I still think that as long as we rely
>> on pg_bsd_indent, we should have it be part of our source tree and
>> automatically built. It's no wonder that barely anybody indents their
>> patches, given that it requires building pg_bsd_ident in a separate repo (but
>> referencing our sourc etree), putting the binary in path, etc.
>
> Hmm ... right offhand, the only objection I can see is that the
> pg_bsd_indent files use the BSD 4-clause license, which is not ours.
> However, didn't UCB grant a blanket exception years ago that said
> that people could treat that as the 3-clause license? If we could
> get past the license question, I agree that doing what you suggest
> would be superior to the current situation.
+1.
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Michael