AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell

From: Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas(dot)zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>
To: "'hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell
Date: 1998-06-30 06:54:16
Message-ID: 01BDA405.12A7F1F0@zeugswettera.user.lan.at
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>> Approved: info-gnu(at)gnu(dot)org
>>
>> The latest version of Rx, 1.9, is available on the web at:
>>
>> http://users.lanminds.com/~lord
>> ftp://emf.net/users/lord/src/rx-1.9.tar.gz
>> and at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rx-1.9.tar.gz and mirrors of that
>> site (see list below).
>
>The reason that we do not use this particular Regex package is that *it*
>falls under the "Almighty GPL", which conflicts with our Berkeley
>Copyright...

I thought we had an agreement that GNU software could be
included in postgresql without imposing a GPL on postgresql,
as long as it is delivered in it's whole, probably in it's own subdirectory,
with the GPL only applying to this subdirectory.

Andreas

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