On 09/18/2014 04:12 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:35:10PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> In my understanding PostgreSQL's manual MUST include the ICU license
>>> term (this is not a problem). What I am not so sure is, any software
>>> uses PostgreSQL also MUST include the ICU license or not. If yes, I
>>> think this is surely a problem.
>>
>> Only if we're thinking of distributing it. If the user gets ICU from
>> their distribution then there is no need to list the licence (just like
>> we don't need to mention the licence of glibc). We only need link
>> against it, not distribute it.
>
> I understand how it'd works with extension, but not with core.
The same it works with libxml, openssl, libreadline and all the other
libraries you can build with.
- Heikki
