Re: TODO: GNU TLS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: TODO: GNU TLS
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Msg-id 2688.1167407917@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: TODO: GNU TLS  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: TODO: GNU TLS  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 12:08:37AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> libjpeg, my other major open-source project, has always been shipped
>> under a BSD-ish license that includes an "advertising" clause; I quote:
>>
>> : (2) If only executable code is distributed, then the accompanying
>> : documentation must state that "this software is based in part on the work of
>> : the Independent JPEG Group".

> That's not an advertising clause,

That's not a fact, that's an opinion, and unless you're a lawyer who's
studied the matter, I don't think your opinion carries much weight.
Admittedly mine doesn't either --- but the point here is that it's
extremely debatable whether there is any real difference between OpenSSL
and other projects that no one is complaining about.
        regards, tom lane


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