Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
Date: 2006-05-31 20:51:48
Message-ID: 20060531205148.GI23169@svana.org
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On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:08:28PM -0700, Steve Atkins wrote:
> On May 31, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> >On 31/5/06 19:13, "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> wrote:
> >
> >>I wonder if we'd be able to ship gzip with the windows installer, to
> >>insure proper integration.
> >
> >'Fraid not. It's GPL'd.
>
> Well, one implementation of it is. zlib is new-bsd-ish, though, and
> includes minigzip, which should be just fine for use in a pipe on
> windows.

Even then it's not relevent. The Windows Installer is already GPL'd by
the fact it includes readline. zlib is indeed straight BSD like.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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