Re: AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell

>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Andreas Zeugswetter wrote:
>
> > >> Approved: info-gnu@gnu.org
> > >>
> > >> The latest version of Rx, 1.9, is available on the web at:
> > >>
> > >>     http://users.lanminds.com/~lord
> > >>     ftp://emf.net/users/lord/src/rx-1.9.tar.gz
> > >>  and at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rx-1.9.tar.gz and mirrors of that
> > >>                                                 site (see list below).
> > >
> > >The reason that we do not use this particular Regex package is that *it*
> > >falls under the "Almighty GPL", which conflicts with our Berkeley
> > >Copyright...
> >
> > I thought we had an agreement that GNU software could be
> > included in postgresql without imposing a GPL on postgresql,
> > as long as it is delivered in it's whole, probably in it's own subdirectory,
> > with the GPL only applying to this subdirectory.
>
>     Only those that fall under LGPL, not GPL...
>

As it happens, rx-1.9 is not under either the GPL, or the LGPL. The author
offers a range of free and commercial licenses. It appears that we could
use this software, but the safest bet would be to contact the author and ask
as the license documents are not as well spelled out as the Gnu licences and
I may have misunderstood them.

-dg

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