On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:23, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:53 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>>> Stephen Frost wrote: >>>> -- Start of PGP signed section. >>>> > * Greg Stark (gsst...@mit.edu) wrote: >>>> > > Well for what it's worth we want to support both. At least the project >>>> > > philosophy has been that commercial derivatives are expected and >>>> > > acceptable so things like EDB's products, or Greenplums, or for that >>>> > > matter Pokertracker's all include other proprietary source that of >>>> > > course has restrictive licenses ("OpenSSL-type-licensed" except even >>>> > > *more* restrictive). >>>> > >>>> > This is a bit backwards, I think.. What you're suggesting is that, some >>>> > day, we might want community/BSD-licensed PG to link against >>>> > commercially licensed products from EDB for basic functionality (eg: >>>> > encryption)? >>>> > >>>> > I agree that we want to reduce and eliminate, to the extent possible, >>>> > our dependence on GPL or OpenSSL-type-licensed libraries. It's >>>> > unfortunate that there isn't a good non-GPL option for libreadline, but >>>> > I'm not sure what EDB or anyone else would expect the PG community to >>>> > do regarding that. Should PG remove support for libreadline? Should >>>> > the PG community make libedit a good BSD-licensed alternative to >>>> > libreadline? Neither of those really make sense to me. >>>> >>>> What are our click-installers doing now? >>> >>> Probably readline but does it matter? We distribute the source to the >>> click installers. >> >> Actually, we don't. We used to, but we don't at this point. > > Depends on your definition of "distribute" (and what part you are > specifically referring to). There's no tarball, but the installer > sources are on git.postgresql.org.
Oh, my bad - they're back. I was referring to our discussion a couple of weeks back (I think), when you said that was too much work :-P My apologies. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers