Re: GNU readline and BSD license
Fabrice Scemama <fabrice@scemama.org>
From: Fabrice Scemama <fabrice@scemama.org>
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Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-12-23T17:09:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Rasmus Lerdorf, the big PHP developer, told me that the existance of GNU > readline hooks in our source tree could cause RMS/GNU to force us to a > GNU license. > > Obviously, we could remove readline hooks and ship a BSD line editing > library, but does this make any sense to you? It doesn't make sense to > me, but he was quite certain. > The sole psql program could be GNU-licenced... just my 2p. Fabrice