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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Robbie!

On Jan 12, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> >> +   All rights reserved.
> >> +
> >> +   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> >> +   modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
> >> +
> >> +   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
> >> +      this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> >> +
> >> +   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
> >> +      this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
> >> +      and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> >
> > 2-clause BSD. Was it Robbie who asked for it?
> 
> I released my work under BSD.  I am not a lawyer, but I believe this
> means it can be taken as GPL if desired.  (I'm okay with this, but have
> not signed the CLA.)

Thanks. Yes, I also believe that we can relicense it as GPL.
But - just to make it clear - I didn't ask for it and didn't mean it,
I was simply curious how this plugin ended up with BSD license :)

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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