| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "mlw" <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: contrib and licensing |
| Date: | 2003-04-03 05:04:33 |
| Message-ID: | 25876.1049346273@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
>> And your point is?
> That everyone is being entirely too picky. Hey, we link against other
> things, too. Some aren't LGPL. The readline example is a good one,
> incidentally: it's GPL.
Yeah, it's an excellent example: there is an alternative implementation
under a different license (libedit).
> And its stubs are in the backend, of all places.
Really? I must have missed that.
> One could clean-room reimplement if the demand is enough.
Certainly, any of this stuff *could* be reimplemented. But for stuff
that's being proposed for contrib, what's theoretically possible given
enough demand isn't the important real-world issue. Contrib stuff is,
by definition, stuff that hasn't yet had all that much work put into it.
So it's appropriate to ask where it can really run *right now*.
regards, tom lane
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