Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?

> Good question. The GPL contains a clause to the effect that "mere
> aggregation" of a GPL'd piece of code in a source distribution with
> unrelated pieces of code is OK, even if those other pieces of code
> are not GPL'd. But the contrib directory is not exactly unrelated
> to the main Postgres distribution, so I'm not sure that we can point
> to this clause to justify putting a GPL'd program in contrib. It'd
> be a gray area...
>
> The problem only comes if I, for example, want to distribute all of
> postgresql (contrib included) in a non-source (i.e., proprietary) way.
> That is fine if contrib includes no GPL code; if it does, I need to
> distribute the code for that portion only. Thus, if we want to
> maintain as broad a potential as possible (including non-source
> distributions) we need to encourage adoption of the BSD license for
> all source.

But Alladin Ghostscript is distributed in source form. This GPL legal
stuff is a terrible hassle.

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