Re: GNU readline and BSD license

From: Patrick Welche <prlw1(at)newn(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GNU readline and BSD license
Date: 2000-12-23 19:42:43
Message-ID: 20001223194243.B8785@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk
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On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:42:43AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> FreeBSD has a freely available library called 'libedit' that could
> be shipped with postgresql, it's under the BSD license.
>
> If you have access to a FreeBSD box see the editline(3) manpage,
> or go to:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=editline&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html

Good plan - AFAIK there isn't anything gnu readline can do that libedit can't..

Patrick

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