Re: GNU readline and BSD license

Fabrice Scemama <fabrice@scemama.org>

From: Fabrice Scemama <fabrice@scemama.org>
To:
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