From: | "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: LGPL |
Date: | 2005-06-15 03:14:17 |
Message-ID: | 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE50A9347@rodrick.geeknet.com.au |
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Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us] Wrote:
> "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > Is there any reason why we would not be able to use LGPL code in PG?
>
> Another point of view on this: it's OK to use LGPL code if
> it's available on the local platform, so long as we don't
> *require* it to be present. It's even safer if the LGPL code
> is merely one implementation of an API that has other
> implementations under different licenses.
> For instance I have no fear at all of linking to glibc, and
> little of linking to libreadline (the latter because we can
> also use the BSD libedit).
>
> If we could not build without libreadline then we would have
> a very big problem. And we certainly aren't going to
> textually incorporate any new LGPL (or GPL) code into our
> distribution.
Right,... Let me be more specific then,....
What are your thoughts on using the glib
(http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/glib/index.html) library for
some functionality in pg?
Additionally,. I came across this fine library
(http://home.gna.org/uri/uri.en.html) which I'd like to use as a base
for a new URI type, unfortunately it's GPL, so based on the above I'm
guessing using it as is, is out of the question?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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