| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Martin A(dot) Marques" <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> |
| Cc: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: GPL, readline, and static/dynamic linking |
| Date: | 2001-02-22 21:04:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200102222104.QAA16712@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > This was discussed extensively earlier. Linking dynamically or
> > statically doesn't make a difference in the case of a library, but as
> > long as readline is an optional feature for the user it's not a
> > problem.
>
> I agree with Trond on this. It's like the problem that PHP had with bc until it
> got LGPLed. All they did was say you could compile PHP with it, but you had to
> downloaded by ourself.
Yes, we don't distribute libreadline. We just check in 'configure' for
it.
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