| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad? |
| Date: | 2006-05-19 16:15:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20060519161538.GF9919@surnet.cl |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:58:11PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
> >>The reality is that MySQL is widely supported by some very, shall we say,
> >>"interesting" open source projects and using these products with
> >>PostgreSQL would be a plus.
> >
> >The biggest headache I find with using postgres is that various GPL
> >licenced programs have trouble directly shipping postgresql support
> >because of our use of OpenSSL. Each and every one of those program
> >needs to add an exception to their licence for distributors to
> >distribute postgresql support.
>
> Why would that be the case... OpenSSL and PostgreSQL both are BSD
> licensed... Am I missing something?
Advertising clause. PostgreSQL doesn't have it, OpenSSL does.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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