Re: GNU readline and BSD license

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-12-23T15:46:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian writes:

> Rasmus Lerdorf, the big PHP developer, told me that the existance of GNU
> readline hooks in our source tree could cause RMS/GNU to force us to a
> GNU license.

This sort of thing is complete nonsense.

By the same logic you could argue that the system("cp template1 ...")
calls could force us to a GNU license, because 'cp' is from GNU fileutils.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/