"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> With libreadline, we are not taking their code or distributing it, but
>> merely linking to it if it exists.
> But we are also requiring it. The rpms won't install unless readline is
> available.
The RPMs require it --- not our source code. Since the RPMs can only
work atop a GPL OS (Linux), it hardly matters in that context.
What is important is that it is possible, and useful, to build Postgres
in a completely non-GPL environment. If that were not so then I think
we'd have some license issues. But the fact that building PG in a
GPL-ized environment creates a GPL-ized binary is not a problem from my
point of view. You've already bought into the GPL if you're using that
environment.
regards, tom lane
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