| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, 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 03:16:15 |
| Message-ID: | 201102170316.p1H3GFH06978@momjian.us |
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Greg Stark wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > 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..
>
> Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project
> philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and
> acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for that
> matter Pokertracker's all include other proprietary source that of
> course has restrictive licenses ("OpenSSL-type-licensed" except even
> *more* restrictive).
That might not be possible of libreadline makes psql require a GPL
license.
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