Thread: No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2
Hi, 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. Greetings, Andres Freund
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? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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
On 2015-08-01 17:14:10 +0200, Andres Freund 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. Just 5 minutes later, some progress on that front: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/03/20/license/ - Andres
On 08/01/2015 05:14 PM, Andres Freund 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. Great! This means that the Debian packages will eventually be able to drop their LD_PRELOAD hack, which never worked perfectly due to compiling against libedit or libreadline header resulting in different binaries. Andreas
On 2017-03-24 02:31:47 +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > On 08/01/2015 05:14 PM, Andres Freund 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. > > Great! This means that the Debian packages will eventually be able to drop > their LD_PRELOAD hack, which never worked perfectly due to compiling against > libedit or libreadline header resulting in different binaries. Well, relicensing is hard. It's far from guaranteed to succeed... Greetings, Andres Freund