Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
>>Not decided, but it's surely on the radar screen for this discussion.
>>Joe Conway's PL/R is in the back of my mind as well --- it likely has
>>a smaller userbase than the first two, but from a maintenance standpoint
>>it probably belongs on the same level.
> 
> Yeah, except PL/R has wierd build requirements (FORTRAN) and different 
> licensing (R is GPL).  :-(

R requires FORTRAN to build, but PL/R doesn't. PL/R just needs an 
installed copy of libR.so (or equiv). Also, PL/R can build using pgxs 
now, so it doesn't even need a Postgres source tree.

I've considered relicensing PL/R with a BSD license, but I haven't been 
able to decide whether I really can do that given libR's GPL status, and 
I'm afraid it might tick off the R core developers if I do.

Joe

(quiet lately, but still lurking...)