> I definitely agree with Vadim here: it's fairly silly that the
> contrib userlock code is GPL'd, when it consists only of a few dozen
> lines of wrapper for the real functionality that's in the main backend.
> The only thing this licensing setup can accomplish is to discourage
> people from using the userlock code; what's the value of that?
> 
> Besides, anyone who actually wanted to use the userlock code would need
> only to write their own wrapper functions to get around the GPL license.

Hey, I agree with Vadim too.  The GPL license is just a roadblock, but I
can't tell Massimo what to do with his code if it is not in the backend
proper.

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