Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> I see this continuining to be a problem for the postgresql community
> given how many GPLed projects use libpq. freeradius might be fixable with a
> change in their license, but for postgresql to continue to be reasonably
> usable by GPLed projects, either OpenSSL's license needs to change, or we
> need to support an alternative secure socket api like GnuTLS.
>
> GnuTLS is LGPL, which isn't quite as liberal as postgresql's
> license, but should still be ubiqutous enough to be worthwhile.
As PostgreSQL is participating in Google Summer of Code 2006, perhaps
the GnuTLS support could be a student's project.
--
Nicolas Baradakis
