Re: Making tab-complete.c easier to maintain

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2015-10-22 16:26:10 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
>> To be affective negatively by libreadline's viral license, an entity
>> would need to fork the psql client in proprietary ways that they did
>> not wish not to make available to end users, at the same time linking
>> in libreadline.
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something big, but I really don't see people out
>> there shipping a libreadline-enabled psql client, details of whose
>> source they'd want to keep a deep, dark secret.
>
> Isn't that just about every proprietary fork of postgres? Most have
> added backend features and I guess many of those have in turn added
> support to psql for those features. Sure it'd probably in reality be
> relatively harmless for them to release these psql modifications, but I
> rather doubt their management will generally see it that way.

Yeah, exactly. EnterpriseDB have to keep libedit working even if the
PostgreSQL community dropped support, so I hope we don't decide to do
that.

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