Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
Date
Msg-id 201102170316.p1H3GFH06978@momjian.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
List pgsql-hackers
Greg Stark wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > I agree w/ the other responses to this, in particular from Stark, but I
> > just wanted to point out that we're much more likely to come across
> > other GPL-licensed things that we want to support linking against (and
> > who might link against us..) than OpenSSL-type-licensed things..
> 
> Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project
> philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and
> acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for that
> matter Pokertracker's all include other proprietary source that of
> course has restrictive licenses ("OpenSSL-type-licensed" except even
> *more* restrictive).

That might not be possible of libreadline makes psql require a GPL
license.

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
http://enterprisedb.com
 + It's impossible for everything to be true. +


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
Next
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: Unexpected page allocation behavior on insert-only tables