Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?
Date
Msg-id 199910192139.RAA14388@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
List pgsql-hackers
> >     I  think  readline  isn't  our biggest problem. What about if
> >     they notice that our parser can only be compiled  when  using
> >     bison,  and  that  we  ship the generated output for the case
> >     someone doesn't has bison installed?
> 
> afaik this is explicitly covered as "conforming behavior" in the GNU
> license for bison. It was not always so, but the license for bison was
> recently updated to allow distributing generated code.
> 
> I should point out that rms himself is on speaking terms with us; he
> recently referred someone here to ask about Postgres vis a vis Oracle
> compatibility. I'm pretty sure we are one of "the good guys" in Open
> Source. ;)

Wait until you read my preface.  It makes us sound like heros.  Maybe we
are.

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