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

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS
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Msg-id 447C75C3.5000609@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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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.

cheers

andrew

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