On 2015-08-02 12:34:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
> > is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
> > compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.
>
> What's the connection to libedit?
Some platforms have to use libedit because linking to both libreadline
and openssl is of debated legality. GPL prohibits additional
restrictions and openssl's license has an advertising clause which is
often interpreted violating the additional-restrictions clause.
Andres
