| From: | <Charles(dot)McDevitt(at)emc(dot)com> |
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| To: | <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-12 00:07:07 |
| Message-ID: | A719AE5B0485F547A2F37F26364186503E68C371@MX15A.corp.emc.com |
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-----Original Message-----
> From: gsstark(at)gmail(dot)com [mailto:gsstark(at)gmail(dot)com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:03 PM
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, <Charles(dot)McDevitt(at)emc(dot)com> wrote:
> > The GNU people will never be 100% satisfied by anything you do to psql, other
> than making it GPL.
> > Readline is specifically licensed in a way to try to force this (but many disagree
> with their ability to force this).
>
> This is just libelous FUD. There's absolutely no reason postgres would
> have to be GPL'd to satisfy any library license.
Ok, but be aware that readline is GPL v3, not GPL v2, and has those additional requirements.
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