Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS
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Msg-id 200605310933.k4V9XxZ02990@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > FWIW, Red Hat's legal department thinks that the FSF has "overreached"
> > in claiming that the GPL is incompatible with OpenSSL's license.  Which
> > is why Red Hat isn't worrying about GPL apps that use OpenSSL, of which
> > there are quite a few ...
> >
> >
> I'm quite happy if we hang onto Red Hat's coat tails on this one.
>
> Do we use any GPL libraries other than libreadline? It would be nice to
> be able to get out of this game altogether - getting libedit up to
> scratch and portable would be very nice, and I know for a fact that
> commercial postgres vendors would welcome such a development.

Agreed, but FYI GnuTLS is LGPL, not GPL.

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