Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> In particular, getting rid of use of OpenSSL would not be sufficient
> to satisfy the most rabid GPL partisans that we were in compliance.

I've never heard anyone argue that position, don't believe anyone would,
and certainly don't agree with it.

> Whereas, if we get rid of readline, it no longer matters whether we
> depend on OpenSSL.

I agree w/ the other responses to this, in particular from Stark, but I
just wanted to point out that we're much more likely to come across
other GPL-licensed things that we want to support linking against (and
who might link against us..) than OpenSSL-type-licensed things..
Thanks,
    Stephen