| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(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 15:52:02 |
| Message-ID: | 446DE9A2.20002@pse-consulting.de |
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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.
They could distribute a non-ssl-enabled version, *if* they really need
to include libpq in the package, or advise to to replace it with the
common version if ssl is required. I bet >99 % of pgsql connections are
not encrypted anyway.
Regards,
Andreas
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