| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: LGPL |
| Date: | 2005-06-15 02:21:51 |
| Message-ID: | 200506150221.j5F2LpQ28853@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >John Hansen wrote:
> >
> >
> >>What about GPL ?
> >>I assume that's out of the question!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >If we add some GPL code, the entire binary becomes GPL, and that
> >prevents closed-source commercial versions from being produced.
> >
> >
> >
>
> When I went searching for some code to make a directory path in initdb,
> I carefully avoided all the GPL versions, which is why I picked the code
> from NetBSD. Anyone taking code from elsewhere to use in PostgreSQL
> should a) acknowledge the source and b) be aware of this issue.
Agreed.
With libreadline, we are not taking their code or distributing it, but
merely linking to it if it exists. Now, some say that is enough to make
us GPL, but many don't agree with that interpretation.
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