On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
I'll submit the proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches again, because some of previous messages are filtered due to attachment and I cannot provide whole of patches yet.
This is actually what you should have done from the beginning. And it only should have gone to the pgsql-hackers list, which is the only one I'm replying to. Your patches are at this point a proposal, as you say in the subject, and those go to the pgsql-hackers list with the minimum of files necessary to support them. pgsql-patches is generally aimed at patches that have already been discussed on the hackers list, ones that are basically ready to apply to the source code.
The libselinux is linked with SE-PostgreSQL, but it is licensed as public domain software by NSA.
As for the licensing issues here, what everyone is looking for is a clear statement of the SELinux license from the source of that code. The official NSA statment at http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/license.cfm says:
"All source code found on this site is released under the same terms and conditions as the original sources. For example, the patches to the Linux kernel, patches to many existing utilities, and some of the new programs available here are released under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Please refer to the source code for specific license information."
GPL is a perfectly good license, but it's far from clear whether code derived from it can be incorporated into PostgreSQL even if you wrote all of it yourself. I just checked libselinux, and as you say it includes a LICENSE file that states "This library (libselinux) is public domain software, i.e. not copyrighted.". That's good, but a similar independant review will need to happen for every component you interact with here, on top of a technical review. Luckily this is something a lot of people would like and that should all get taken care of.
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