| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
| Cc: | John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: LGPL |
| Date: | 2005-06-15 12:51:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200506151251.j5FCp7v14744@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > K, that's what confused me as I got the impression it was ok to require
> > > LGPL libraries but not GPL.
> >
> > I think the answer isn't clear on that one.
>
> If that is not clear then what is the difference between a LGPL lib and a
> GPL one? To copy code from said lib into pg could never be allowed, but
> just linking to it surely can not be a problem.
>
> LGPL libs are used all over by all kinds of closed sorce applications and
> that's the whole idea of making things (like glib) into LGPL instead of
> GPL. For example Acrobat Reader 7 for unix uses GTK+ and it is LGPL.
> Acrobat Reader surely do require GTK+.
Maybe LGPL is OK, but I think we will try to avoid a dependency on LGPL
code if we can help it.
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