Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:23, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> Stephen Frost wrote:
>>>> -- Start of PGP signed section.
>>>> > * Greg Stark (gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu) wrote:
>>>> > > Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project
>>>> > > philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and
>>>> > > acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for that
>>>> > > matter Pokertracker's all include other proprietary source that of
>>>> > > course has restrictive licenses ("OpenSSL-type-licensed" except even
>>>> > > *more* restrictive).
>>>> >
>>>> > This is a bit backwards, I think..  What you're suggesting is that, some
>>>> > day, we might want community/BSD-licensed PG to link against
>>>> > commercially licensed products from EDB for basic functionality (eg:
>>>> > encryption)?
>>>> >
>>>> > I agree that we want to reduce and eliminate, to the extent possible,
>>>> > our dependence on GPL or OpenSSL-type-licensed libraries.  It's
>>>> > unfortunate that there isn't a good non-GPL option for libreadline, but
>>>> > I'm not sure what EDB or anyone else would expect the PG community to
>>>> > do regarding that.  Should PG remove support for libreadline?  Should
>>>> > the PG community make libedit a good BSD-licensed alternative to
>>>> > libreadline?  Neither of those really make sense to me.
>>>>
>>>> What are our click-installers doing now?
>>>
>>> Probably readline but does it matter? We distribute the source to the
>>> click installers.
>>
>> Actually, we don't. We used to, but we don't at this point.
>
> Depends on your definition of "distribute" (and what part you are
> specifically referring to). There's no tarball, but the installer
> sources are on git.postgresql.org.

Oh, my bad - they're back. I was referring to our discussion a couple
of weeks back (I think), when you said that was too much work :-P

My apologies.

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