Re: Question about gettext licensing

Hey Peter,

      I forgot to mention that I am trying to build on windows. So I am
not using libreadline.
Thanks for your valuable help.

Thanks & Regards,
Vikram

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:57 AM
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Cc: Vikram Patil
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Question about gettext licensing

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 01:35:36 Vikram Patil wrote:
>             I was concerned about gettext licensing. I was able to
build
> PostgreSql with gettext library. But this project is distributed under
> GNU license.
>
>  So I would like to know if we want to distribute product commercially
> under different licenses, will it be okay ?  If not then what approach
> usually companies, which distribute PostgreSql as database, follow?

The gettext package contains the processing tools, but the run-time
support is
in your C library.  So this is not different from compiling with GCC
while the
run-time support is again in the C library.