| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-17 01:53:36 |
| Message-ID: | 20110217015336.GK4116@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient
> to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance.
I've never heard anyone argue that position, don't believe anyone would,
and certainly don't agree with it.
> Whereas, if we get rid of readline, it no longer matters whether we
> depend on OpenSSL.
I agree w/ the other responses to this, in particular from Stark, but I
just wanted to point out that we're much more likely to come across
other GPL-licensed things that we want to support linking against (and
who might link against us..) than OpenSSL-type-licensed things..
Thanks,
Stephen
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