[HACKERS] Whence cometh the data in src/test/regress/data/streets.data ?

OK, I may be in a nitpicking mood today. :-)

IANAL, but it's my responsibility to check that Sun won't be violating
any copyright or licencing terms when delivering PostgreSQL with
(Open)Solaris.

I am now working on adding the regression tests ("gmake check") to the
8.3 packages integrated into OpenSolaris. While going through the list
of files I come across

src/test/regress/data/streets.data

This file includes ~5000 test data entries which appear to be
geographical locations for end points of streets etc. in the San
Francisco Bay Area.

I don't think whoever made this has typed it all in, nor does it look
like random data, it almost certainly comes from a real data
source. Which means someone probably owns the copyright.

This file was checked in way back in July 1996, by Marc G. Fournier
but that doesn't mean he was the one who got the data from
somewhere. Does anyone know where it comes from? Or has this
information been lost in the mist of time?

If it's a US Goverment source, then it's in the public domain and
we[1] can freely use it. Otherwise, at least in theory, we may have a
problem.

[1] "we" can here be read as either "PostgreSQL" or "Sun".

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Bjorn Munch Sun Microsystems
Trondheim, Norway http://sun.com/postgresql/

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