Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > * Greg Stark (gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu) wrote:
> > > Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project
> > > philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and
> > > acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for that
> > > matter Pokertracker's all include other proprietary source that of
> > > course has restrictive licenses ("OpenSSL-type-licensed" except even
> > > *more* restrictive).
> >
> > This is a bit backwards, I think.. What you're suggesting is that, some
> > day, we might want community/BSD-licensed PG to link against
> > commercially licensed products from EDB for basic functionality (eg:
> > encryption)?
> >
> > I agree that we want to reduce and eliminate, to the extent possible,
> > our dependence on GPL or OpenSSL-type-licensed libraries. It's
> > unfortunate that there isn't a good non-GPL option for libreadline, but
> > I'm not sure what EDB or anyone else would expect the PG community to
> > do regarding that. Should PG remove support for libreadline? Should
> > the PG community make libedit a good BSD-licensed alternative to
> > libreadline? Neither of those really make sense to me.
>
> What are our click-installers doing now?

Probably readline but does it matter? We distribute the source to the
click installers.

JD

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