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

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In response to Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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> From: gsstark@gmail.com [mailto:gsstark@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:03 PM
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM,  <Charles.McDevitt@emc.com> wrote:
> > The GNU people will never be 100% satisfied by anything you do to psql, other
> than making it GPL.
> > Readline is specifically licensed in a way to try to force this (but many disagree
> with their ability to force this).
>
> This is just libelous FUD. There's absolutely no reason postgres would
> have to be GPL'd to satisfy any library license.

Ok, but be aware that readline is GPL v3, not GPL v2, and has those additional requirements.


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