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Re: contrib and licensing

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>, "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, "mlw" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-04-03T03:39:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> <stifles ROTFL>

> Everyone does realize that on Linux PostgreSQL binaries link against glibc, 
> which is LGPL......

And your point is?

On other Unixoid systems you can link against BSD-license libc code, or
some-random-proprietary-license code from HP or Sun or whomever.  glibc
doesn't have a monopoly in that sphere.  But mlw is offering code that
will *only* run against a single implementation that is LGPL licensed.
That makes it effectively LGPL.

			regards, tom lane