Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
>> And your point is?
> That everyone is being entirely too picky. Hey, we link against other
> things, too. Some aren't LGPL. The readline example is a good one,
> incidentally: it's GPL.
Yeah, it's an excellent example: there is an alternative implementation
under a different license (libedit).
> And its stubs are in the backend, of all places.
Really? I must have missed that.
> One could clean-room reimplement if the demand is enough.
Certainly, any of this stuff *could* be reimplemented. But for stuff
that's being proposed for contrib, what's theoretically possible given
enough demand isn't the important real-world issue. Contrib stuff is,
by definition, stuff that hasn't yet had all that much work put into it.
So it's appropriate to ask where it can really run *right now*.
regards, tom lane