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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:32:00 +0700 (NSS)
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: libedit replacement for libreadline
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107190128370.44289-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <p05101004b77a150da1f1@[128.113.24.47]>

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hi, there!

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> >Personally, I think it's worth it to get rid of a GNU dependency
> >in the base system, as well as reducing the overall amount of
> >functional code duplication.
> 
> I may be misunderstanding what you mean here, but I don't think
> we should replace libreadline with libedit.  However, I do find
> this very interesting, as some of my friends and I have a program
> that we're going to switch from "gnu" to "bsd" licensing, and it
> would be nice if we could use this libedit instead of libreadline.

I read on pgsql-hackers mailinglist that only static linking with
libreadline will infect your binaries with GPL virus. 
btw PostgreSQL already has support for NetBSD's libedit

/fjoe


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