On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
