| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: contrib and licensing |
| Date: | 2003-04-02 23:00:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20030402185852.G71125@hub.org |
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > > If that is a real objective, I'm surprised.
> >
> > The base source tree has always been as BSD pure as we can make it ... its
> > never been kept a secret ...
>
> True. But not linking to LGPLd libs would be a bit extreme there.
Correct, we've always had libreadline support, as a compile option, but
libreadline is not part of the distribution, only the hooks to it are ...
and, just recently, libedit(?) support was added as well, so that a
non-GPL licensed alternative is available for those wishing to distribute
the software ...
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