AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Zeugswetter
Subject AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell
Date
Msg-id 01BDA405.12A7F1F0@zeugswettera.user.lan.at
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Responses Re: AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell
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>> Approved: info-gnu@gnu.org
>>
>> The latest version of Rx, 1.9, is available on the web at:
>>
>>     http://users.lanminds.com/~lord
>>     ftp://emf.net/users/lord/src/rx-1.9.tar.gz
>>  and at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rx-1.9.tar.gz and mirrors of that
>>                                                 site (see list below).
>
>The reason that we do not use this particular Regex package is that *it*
>falls under the "Almighty GPL", which conflicts with our Berkeley
>Copyright...

I thought we had an agreement that GNU software could be
included in postgresql without imposing a GPL on postgresql,
as long as it is delivered in it's whole, probably in it's own subdirectory,
with the GPL only applying to this subdirectory.

Andreas


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