Re: psql & readline & win32

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> This has been debated ad nauseam in the past. The consensus, bar a few
>> people with more advanced paranoia than I suffer from, is that we can ;-)

> I don't think it is good practice to ship packaged software that is statically 
> linked to a gpl library and then claim that your package is bsd licensed.

Robert is 100% right.  If the Readline people wanted non-GPL packages
linking to their code, they'd have used LGPL not GPL.  We must not
ignore their clear intentions; to do so is certainly unethical and
probably illegal.

Anyone for trying to port BSD libedit to work on Windows?

(Of course, you could also treat the Windows installer as being entirely
GPL-licensed, which would effectively comply with both upstream
licenses.  But I don't find that an appealing solution.)
        regards, tom lane