From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Path to PostgreSQL portabiliy |
Date: | 2002-05-08 16:41:18 |
Message-ID: | 20020508133952.Q32524-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> writes:
> > 2) If (1) does not exempt the PostgreSQL app from GPL polution, then why
> > not distribute PostgreSQL on Windows using a GPL license?
>
> Given the cygwin licensing terms stated at
> http://cygwin.com/licensing.html
> it appears to me that we need not open that can of worms (and I'd much
> rather not muddy the licensing waters that way, regardless of any
> arguments about whether it would hurt or not...)
>
> As near as I can tell, we *could* develop a self-contained installation
> package for PG+cygwin without any licensing problem. So that set of
> problems could be solved with a reasonable amount of work. I'm still
> unclear on whether there are serious technical problems (performance,
> stability) with using cygwin.
The last time I tried to play with it, any sort of load tended to blow
away the whole IPC side of things ... it was stable to "play with", but
for any *serious* work ... this may have changed though, as it has been
awhile since I played with it last ...
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