Re: No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2
Date: 2017-03-24 01:34:46
Message-ID: 20170324013446.izlbutqdkwdp5bqn@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-03-24 02:31:47 +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 08/01/2015 05:14 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
> > is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
> > compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.
>
> Great! This means that the Debian packages will eventually be able to drop
> their LD_PRELOAD hack, which never worked perfectly due to compiling against
> libedit or libreadline header resulting in different binaries.

Well, relicensing is hard. It's far from guaranteed to succeed...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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