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Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?]

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Brook Milligan <brook@biology.nmsu.edu>
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-10-20T17:41:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
>    Oh, I didn't realize they had a binary-only distribution that was
>    _different_ from the source distribution.
> 
> DIFFERENT is not relevant.  I could today ship a binary verion of
> postgresql in its present form as a proprietary product with no source
> code.  No license problems arise from doing so.  Allowing GPL code
> into the base system causes the problem. 

Does GPL require the source to be included, or just available for free?


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