Re: GNU readline and BSD license - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: GNU readline and BSD license
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0012231638530.1068-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to GNU readline and BSD license  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: GNU readline and BSD license  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> Rasmus Lerdorf, the big PHP developer, told me that the existance of GNU
> readline hooks in our source tree could cause RMS/GNU to force us to a
> GNU license.

This sort of thing is complete nonsense.

By the same logic you could argue that the system("cp template1 ...")
calls could force us to a GNU license, because 'cp' is from GNU fileutils.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/



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