Re: GNU readline and BSD license
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-29T23:43:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes: > How different is the feature set? I was going to ask the same thing. If it's an exact replacement then OK, but I do not want to put up with non-Emacs-compatible keybindings, to mention just one likely issue. The whole thing really strikes me as make-work anyway. Linux is GPL'd; does anyone want to argue that we shouldn't run on Linux? Since we are not including libreadline in our distribution, there is NO reason to worry about using it when it's available. Wanting to find a replacement purely because of the license amounts to license bigotry, IMHO. regards, tom lane