Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gsstark@gmail.com [mailto:gsstark@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Stark
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:14 PM
> To: McDevitt, Charles
> Cc: sfrost@snowman.net; alvherre@commandprompt.com;
> greg@2ndquadrant.com; mbanck@debian.org; tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us;
> andrew@dunslane.net; jd@commandprompt.com; pgsql-
> hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:07 AM,  <Charles.McDevitt@emc.com> wrote:
> >> This is just libelous FUD. There's absolutely no reason postgres would
> >> have to be GPL'd to satisfy any library license.
> >
> > Ok, but be aware that readline is GPL v3, not GPL v2, and has those additional
> requirements.
>
> No

What?  From the GNU Readline home page:  "Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General
PublicLicense, version 3." 

I know it used to be GPLv2, but that isn't true these days.