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