On 08/01/2011 02:17 PM, Dave Page wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:46 PM, David Fetter<da...@fetter.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 08:32:03PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
I think you had better plan on incorporating GNU readline into
installer builds for Lion.
Unfortunately the licence makes that a non-starter.
What is it about a GPLed psql client that is a non-starter for the
installer? I'm not a fan of the GPL, but in this case, the effects of
linking it in are quite limited in scope, i.e. they pertain to exactly
one binary.
The scope or number of files is irrelevant. Having just a single GPL'd
file in those installers makes it impossible for ISVs to bundle them
with their products, unless they open source them under a GPL
compatible licence.
IIRC, there is also a question of whether it is legal at all to
distribute a binary linked with both libreadline and openssl.
cheers
andrew
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