Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

From: Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
Date: 2011-02-11 13:59:33
Message-ID: 20110211135933.GO26548@nighthawk.chemicalconnection.dyndns.org
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:04:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Less narrow-minded interpretation of GPL requirements, perhaps.
> (And yes, we have real lawyers on staff considering these issues.)

Is their opinion public/can be made public? This might possibly lead to
a re-evaluation of the situation by Debian.

> If Debian want to shoot themselves in the foot like that, we can't
> stop them

BTW, that change has been merged into Ubuntu and will be (as of now) in
the next Ubuntu release.

Michael

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