From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
Date: | 2011-02-17 10:36:23 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTim75TUNmtKZexYQWQFHjric5iy-teUVo8dYbOpV@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:23, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.
Actually, we don't. We used to, but we don't at this point.
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Magnus Hagander
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