Re: AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980630075401.636C-100000@hub.org
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In response to AW: [HACKERS] regular expressions from hell  (Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>)
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Andreas Zeugswetter wrote:

> >> Approved: info-gnu@gnu.org
> >>
> >> The latest version of Rx, 1.9, is available on the web at:
> >>
> >>     http://users.lanminds.com/~lord
> >>     ftp://emf.net/users/lord/src/rx-1.9.tar.gz
> >>  and at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rx-1.9.tar.gz and mirrors of that
> >>                                                 site (see list below).
> >
> >The reason that we do not use this particular Regex package is that *it*
> >falls under the "Almighty GPL", which conflicts with our Berkeley
> >Copyright...
>
> I thought we had an agreement that GNU software could be
> included in postgresql without imposing a GPL on postgresql,
> as long as it is delivered in it's whole, probably in it's own subdirectory,
> with the GPL only applying to this subdirectory.

    Only those that fall under LGPL, not GPL...


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