Re: Question about gettext licensing

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Vikram Patil" <vpatil(at)actuate(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Question about gettext licensing
Date: 2009-08-05 07:56:47
Message-ID: 200908051056.47103.peter_e@gmx.net
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On Tuesday 04 August 2009 01:35:36 Vikram Patil wrote:
> I was concerned about gettext licensing. I was able to build
> PostgreSql with gettext library. But this project is distributed under
> GNU license.
>
> So I would like to know if we want to distribute product commercially
> under different licenses, will it be okay ? If not then what approach
> usually companies, which distribute PostgreSql as database, follow?

The gettext package contains the processing tools, but the run-time support is
in your C library. So this is not different from compiling with GCC while the
run-time support is again in the C library.

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