Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

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?

Joshua D. Drake

>
> I'm thinking particularly of FreeRadius but there are others. More than
> once I thought while waiting for stuff to compile: if I'd chosen mysql
> I'd be done by now...
>
> Have a nice day,

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