Hi Justin,

Additionally, for -

"Also you need to think about all of the code that has been copied but probably 
has incorrect headers." 

Are you referring to a more general case of code other than PG or Bitnine? 
Could you expand a bit on this please.

Thank you in advance!

John

On 2021/11/01 18:12:05 John Gemignani wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> Most of our code uses or is inspired by PostgreSQL's code, in some modified 
> form or another. Additionally, we try to have our code work tightly with 
> their code in order to reduce replication of code. As a core developer, and 
> from your input, I wouldn't be comfortable with anything less than including 
> PostgreSQL's license (along with ASF) in nearly all of our source files - to 
> be safe. Would this be satisfactory to you?
> 
> My understanding of what you are saying about the Bitnine license is to leave 
> it out. As Bitnine donated this code to ASF and merely stating it in the 
> LICENSE or NOTICE file should be sufficient. Would this be satisfactory to 
> you?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> John 
> 
> On 2021/10/30 22:09:00 Justin Mclean wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Basically, keep the PostgreSQL copyright messages intact in all file 
> > > headers that it copy/use from the PostgreSQL
> > 
> > I would do this.
> > 
> > > and just append Bitnine's copyright message to the header along with the 
> > > PostgreSQL's message.
> > 
> > I would not do this, this is an ASF project not Bitnine’s project. 
> > Technically copyright may belong to Bitnine (if for instance an employee of 
> > Bitnine submits something to the project) but this doesn’t follow what is 
> > recommend by ASF policy on headers.
> > 
> > Also you need to think about all of the code that has been copied but 
> > probably has incorrect headers.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
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