Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "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 21:20:21
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0F9CA@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > >>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.

Uh. The installer does *not* include readline.

We do include PostGIS, but the PostGIS people themselves don't consider
us GPLed because of that ;-)

Everything else is != GPL.

//Magnus

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