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

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
>
Is that the same clause that caused the XFree86/X.Org fork?

J

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