Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?

>    Good question.  The GPL contains a clause to the effect that "mere
>    aggregation" of a GPL'd piece of code in a source distribution with
>    unrelated pieces of code is OK, even if those other pieces of code
>    are not GPL'd.  But the contrib directory is not exactly unrelated
>    to the main Postgres distribution, so I'm not sure that we can point
>    to this clause to justify putting a GPL'd program in contrib.  It'd
>    be a gray area...
> 
> The problem only comes if I, for example, want to distribute all of
> postgresql (contrib included) in a non-source (i.e., proprietary) way.
> That is fine if contrib includes no GPL code; if it does, I need to
> distribute the code for that portion only.  Thus, if we want to
> maintain as broad a potential as possible (including non-source
> distributions) we need to encourage adoption of the BSD license for
> all source.

But Alladin Ghostscript is distributed in source form.  This GPL legal
stuff is a terrible hassle.


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