Re: LGPL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: LGPL
Date
Msg-id 200506151326.j5FDQKv28206@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: LGPL  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >Maybe LGPL is OK, but I think we will try to avoid a dependency on LGPL
> >code if we can help it.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> License issues aside, should we not be trying to avoid adding 
> dependencies on third party libraries, especially those that are not 
> standard on most operating systems? Also bear in mind that any required 
> library would need to be supported on Windows as well as on *nix.

Yep, that's an issue too.

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