From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Michael A(dot) Olson" <mao(at)sleepycat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, ned(at)greatbridge(dot)com |
Subject: | Re: Proposal: replace no-overwrite with Berkeley DB |
Date: | 2000-05-15 18:10:48 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0005151509190.1966-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 15 May 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > Everythingn up to here sounds great ... but this part here totally throws
> > me off ... this would mean that, unlike now where we rely on *zero*
> > external code,
>
> ... where `zero' is defined as regex package, GNU make, Autoconf, Flex,
> Perl, multibyte code ...
where zero is defined as "I can build a binary, put it up on the ftp site,
and nobody has any other requirements in order to use it" ...
> > Effectively, if at some point down the road, the SleepyCat license
> > changes, the whole project just gets slam'd for a loop ...
>
> Hmm, didn't you recently dismiss the argument "What if at some point down
> the road PostgreSQL Inc./Great Bridge/Evil Empire changes the
> license/abducts the source code of PostgreSQL" with "use the last free
> version"?
Okay, then are we merging SleepyCat's code into ours, and distributing
their code? Or are we relying on someone having a copy of the libraries
already installed on their machine?
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