Re: GNU readline and BSD license

Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>

From: teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød )

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: 2000-12-30T20:04:28Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:

> How different is the feature set?  Otherwise, sounds like a great idea
> to me, and reduces the dependencies substantially -- and makes history
> available to all the supported platforms without requiring libreadline
> already installed.

It bloats on platforms having readline but not libedit.

As long as it isn't necesarry for postgresql to function, I don't see
any risk of tainting. 

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.