AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell
Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>
From: Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>
To: "'hackers@postgresql.org'" <hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 1998-06-30T06:54:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>> Approved: info-gnu@gnu.org >> >> The latest version of Rx, 1.9, is available on the web at: >> >> http://users.lanminds.com/~lord >> ftp://emf.net/users/lord/src/rx-1.9.tar.gz >> and at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rx-1.9.tar.gz and mirrors of that >> site (see list below). > >The reason that we do not use this particular Regex package is that *it* >falls under the "Almighty GPL", which conflicts with our Berkeley >Copyright... I thought we had an agreement that GNU software could be included in postgresql without imposing a GPL on postgresql, as long as it is delivered in it's whole, probably in it's own subdirectory, with the GPL only applying to this subdirectory. Andreas