Re: LGPL

Ooooh....

I got the impression that using GPL libraries was a Bad Thing(tm)

... John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:15 PM
> To: Marc G. Fournier
> Cc: John Hansen; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] LGPL
>
> Er, no. It's GPL, not LGPL software. My readline.h says:
>
> The GNU Readline Library is free software; you can redistribute it
> and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or
> (at your option) any later version.
>
>
> see this ancient thread:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-12/msg01029.php
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> >
> > We already do ... libreadline ...
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, John Hansen wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any reason why we would not be able to use LGPL
> code in PG?
> >>
> >> ... John
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