Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Why do we have to involve the whole of PostgreSQL?  Since the only piece
>> that links to libreadline is psql, perhaps we could fix this by having
>> only psql optionally use GnuTLS.
>
> We have code that exists in both psql and the backend (cf src/port/)
> so I'm not sure this really will satisfy the more rabid GPL partisans.
> And this whole discussion is about satisfying the most rabid of them,
> remember.  I don't really think that anything other than "relicense all
> of Postgres as GPL" will make them happy.

Which, by the way, *no one* has the authority to do.

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