[Snowball-discuss] [HACKERS] Snowball release cycle ?

[Grant Ingersoll]

Dropping all the cross posts...

Ah, don't you love all the fun of open source licenses?  ;-)  I  
personally can never keep 'em straight anymore.

At any rate, your concerns, Richard, make total sense.  I don't want  
any users of Snowball to feel left out.  I was merely letting the  
maintainers of Snowball know that, if they aren't interested in coding  
as much anymore (as indicated by Dr. Porter's email), that Snowball,  
in all likelihood, has a home at the ASF if the community wants it.   
Ultimately, I suppose, it is up to the committers of Snowball to  
decide.  FWIW, I am _totally happy_ w/ Snowball maintaining the status  
quo.  I can just submit my char [] patch here, too.

What is great to see, though, is that there is definitely a community  
of interested people here, so I trust it will all work out.

Cheers,
Grant

On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Richard Boulton wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:41:53PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Richard Boulton wrote:
>>> As I understand it, ASL 2 is incompatible with GPL 2, at least  
>>> according to
>>> the FSF.  This would be a showstopper problem for me.
>>
>> Er, what does Postgres have that is covered by GPL2?
>
> I think cross posting has confused this thread - I was talking about
> snowball not postgres.  I don't use postgres at all; in fact, I'm  
> not sure
> why this thread was copied to pgsql-hackers at all - sorry for the  
> noise if
> there wasn't a good reason.
>
> What I mean is that I use snowball in a project which is GPL-2, and  
> cannot
> be relicensed, and snowball changing to ASL 2 would be a showstopper
> problem for me for that reason.
>
> -- 
> Richard