| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS |
| Date: | 2006-05-31 09:33:59 |
| Message-ID: | 200605310933.k4V9XxZ02990@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > FWIW, Red Hat's legal department thinks that the FSF has "overreached"
> > in claiming that the GPL is incompatible with OpenSSL's license. Which
> > is why Red Hat isn't worrying about GPL apps that use OpenSSL, of which
> > there are quite a few ...
> >
> >
> I'm quite happy if we hang onto Red Hat's coat tails on this one.
>
> Do we use any GPL libraries other than libreadline? It would be nice to
> be able to get out of this game altogether - getting libedit up to
> scratch and portable would be very nice, and I know for a fact that
> commercial postgres vendors would welcome such a development.
Agreed, but FYI GnuTLS is LGPL, not GPL.
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