Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Jason Earl <jearl(at)notengoamigos(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, 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 11:27:05
Message-ID: AANLkTi=YNzXLcQv6P2rHK_-Eb-QDJfwhS1gXMLWK6BA_@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Jason Earl <jearl(at)notengoamigos(dot)org> wrote:
> This will be a significant advantage for
>        further free software development, and some projects will decide
>        to make software free in order to use these libraries.

You've misread this paragraph. Postgres is already free (except for
the OpenSSL restrictions). Even
by these people's definitions you don't need to use the GPL to be
free.

--
greg

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