Re: GNU readline and BSD license

From: teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GNU readline and BSD license
Date: 2000-12-30 20:04:28
Message-ID: xuyvgs1brqr.fsf@halden.devel.redhat.com
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Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:

> How different is the feature set? Otherwise, sounds like a great idea
> to me, and reduces the dependencies substantially -- and makes history
> available to all the supported platforms without requiring libreadline
> already installed.

It bloats on platforms having readline but not libedit.

As long as it isn't necesarry for postgresql to function, I don't see
any risk of tainting.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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