| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Making tab-complete.c easier to maintain |
| Date: | 2015-10-23 03:19:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20151023031929.GL3685@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > The issue for Debian, at least, isn't really about libreadline or
> > libedit, it's about the GPL and the OpenSSL license. From the Debian
> > perspective, if we were able to build with GNUTLS or another SSL library
> > other than OpenSSL (which I know we've made some progress on, thanks
> > Heikki...) then Debian wouldn't have any problem shipping PG linked with
> > libreadline.
>
> What if OpenSSL were to switch to APL2?
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150801151410.GA28344@awork2.anarazel.de
According to that post, it would depend what libreadline is licensed
under. There may be other complications with GPL3 and other libraries
we link against, though I can't think of any offhand and perhaps there
aren't any.
Thanks!
Stephen
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