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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: GNU readline and BSD license
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In response to GNU readline and BSD license  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: GNU readline and BSD license  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Re: GNU readline and BSD license  (Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>)
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> Actually, IMHO, the pro to moving to libedit is that we could include it
> as part of the distribution and make history a *standard* feature

How big is libedit?  If it's tiny, that might be a good argument ...
but I don't want to see us bulking up our distro with something that
people could and should get directly from its source.
        regards, tom lane

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