| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-11 20:19:56 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTik2OFLLaHMLFhgcpADOFE-0+9iFJiz5GjeMpHRQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Why do we have to involve the whole of PostgreSQL? Since the only piece
>> that links to libreadline is psql, perhaps we could fix this by having
>> only psql optionally use GnuTLS.
>
> We have code that exists in both psql and the backend (cf src/port/)
> so I'm not sure this really will satisfy the more rabid GPL partisans.
> And this whole discussion is about satisfying the most rabid of them,
> remember. I don't really think that anything other than "relicense all
> of Postgres as GPL" will make them happy.
Which, by the way, *no one* has the authority to do.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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