Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?

> > I think readline isn't our biggest problem. What about if
> > they notice that our parser can only be compiled when using
> > bison, and that we ship the generated output for the case
> > someone doesn't has bison installed?
>
> afaik this is explicitly covered as "conforming behavior" in the GNU
> license for bison. It was not always so, but the license for bison was
> recently updated to allow distributing generated code.
>
> I should point out that rms himself is on speaking terms with us; he
> recently referred someone here to ask about Postgres vis a vis Oracle
> compatibility. I'm pretty sure we are one of "the good guys" in Open
> Source. ;)

Wait until you read my preface. It makes us sound like heros. Maybe we
are.

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