| From: | Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman(at)debian(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: GNU readline and BSD license |
| Date: | 2000-12-30 02:26:23 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSO.4.10.10012292123180.30602-100000@spider.pilosoft.com |
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On 29 Dec 2000, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > If there is something functionally wrong with Readline then let's talk
> > about it, but let's not replace it with something because some PHP dude
> > said that RMS said something.
>
> ncftp used to be for non-commercial use only and had hooks to be
> linked against readline. RMS threatened legal action, which caused
> the developer to change the license to GPL, which was what RMS wanted.
Problem with ncftp was developers distributing binaries commercially which
were linked to libreadline.
As I said before, postgres doesn't have this problem since neither RPMs
nor other binaries do that.
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