Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Why do we have to involve the whole of PostgreSQL? Since the only piece
> that links to libreadline is psql, perhaps we could fix this by having
> only psql optionally use GnuTLS.
We have code that exists in both psql and the backend (cf src/port/)
so I'm not sure this really will satisfy the more rabid GPL partisans.
And this whole discussion is about satisfying the most rabid of them,
remember. I don't really think that anything other than "relicense all
of Postgres as GPL" will make them happy.
regards, tom lane