| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-11 20:10:30 |
| Message-ID: | 18683.1297455030@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Why do we have to involve the whole of PostgreSQL? Since the only piece
> that links to libreadline is psql, perhaps we could fix this by having
> only psql optionally use GnuTLS.
We have code that exists in both psql and the backend (cf src/port/)
so I'm not sure this really will satisfy the more rabid GPL partisans.
And this whole discussion is about satisfying the most rabid of them,
remember. I don't really think that anything other than "relicense all
of Postgres as GPL" will make them happy.
regards, tom lane
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