Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gsstark(at)gmail(dot)com [mailto:gsstark(at)gmail(dot)com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:14 PM
> To: McDevitt, Charles
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> Subject: Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:07 AM, <Charles(dot)McDevitt(at)emc(dot)com> wrote:
> >> This is just libelous FUD. There's absolutely no reason postgres would
> >> have to be GPL'd to satisfy any library license.
> >
> > Ok, but be aware that readline is GPL v3, not GPL v2, and has those additional
> requirements.
>
> No

What? From the GNU Readline home page: "Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3."

I know it used to be GPLv2, but that isn't true these days.