Martin,
> Danek Duvall wrote:
> > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:03:09AM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
> >
> >> * I noticed that currently, pgsql is statically linked against
> >> libreadline. It would probably be very useful to provide a dynamic
> >> libreadline, since several other programs could benefit as well,
> >> e.g. gdb.
> >
> > This was a specific decision by the ARC, fearing the introduction of an
> > attractive nuisance. Readline's license is GPL, hence it "infects"
> > anything linking against it. This doesn't affect postgres, but would
> > affect any project that thought they were able to link against readline.
> > The ARC felt the reward of allowing a shared readline was not sufficient to
> > balance the risk of projects using it inappropriately.
>
> do you have some pointers/links to anywhere that was readline issue
> discussed. I feel it's time to reopen it.
probably. As I mentioned, this also came up during the discussion on the
/usr/gnu proposal in this thread:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=8631&tstart=0
> > The decision can always be revisited on its own.
>
> What should be the best way to reopen this issue?
It's probably best to ping Stephen Hahn about his programmatic licensing
draft case mentioned in the thread above. Since the postgres ARC case
Danek mentioned above isn't public, I have no idea what specific concerns
the ARC raised there.
Rainer
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