On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > It looks like they are all very permissive, though I wonder what the > legal effect of a license clause that the software be used for Good > and not Evil might be.
Yeah, that might be too restrictive, given that PostgreSQL is used by government agencies and porn sites. Not that a given gov or porn site is inherently evil, mind, but some are. ;-P > I guess the question is whether we would slurp one of these into our > code base, or whether we would add an analog of --with-libxml and > provide only a stub implementation when the library is not present. > Any opinions? Does anyone know whether any of these implementations > are commonly packaged already? I doubt that they have similar interfaces, so we'd probably have to rely on one. I'd probably favor embedding, personally, it's less work for admins. Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
