Re: BUG #13688: lack of return value in r_mark_regions()

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: rucsoftsec(at)163(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #13688: lack of return value in r_mark_regions()
Date: 2015-10-20 18:22:27
Message-ID: 18715.1445365347@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Unfortunately, snowball development is nearly dead.

> Apparently, there's a month-old effort to revive it at
> http://snowballstem.org/ It's probably too new to be depend on it yet,
> but there are plenty of commits to the source repo.

> However, the maintainer posted to alert that the license is actually
> 3-clause BSD: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.snowball/1558
> which is OpenSSL-level licensing nightmare all over again ...

Ugh. It looks to me like Olly has no idea that the third clause is a
serious problem for some downstream projects. And although I'm subscribed
to snowball-discuss, I never got that message (or I'd have said
something...)

regards, tom lane

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